Academy Museum of Motion Pictures opens next year; Reveals Inaugural Exhibitions
Coming in late 2019, the Academy Museum will be the world's premier film institution. LOS ANGELES — When the long-awaited Academy Museum of Motion Pictures opens next year, it will offer a mix of scholarship and sparkle as it tries to appeal to two discordant audiences: moviedom’s elite and the tourist masses. Kerry Brougher, the museum’s director, announced his programming strategy on Tuesday. The $388 million institution — it's opening now pushed back to late 2019 — expects to attract about 860,000 visitors annually. It is next to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and features a theater inside a spherical building designed by Renzo Piano that has been likened to the Death Star. (Piano prefers to think of it as a “soap bubble.”) Anchoring the six-floor Academy Museum will be a 30,000-square-foot exhibition tracing the artistic and scientific history of cinema from a filmmaker’s perspective, starting in the late 1800s in France, and including an array of...