Tom Hanks (tomhanks) announces the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures opening date: 'There is plenty of culture to be found in the City of Angels...but there has never been a museum dedicated to the art and science of motion pictures.' Oscars
Eight years since it was announced, the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures will finally open on Dec. 14, 2020.
Tom Hanks, a museum trustee and co-chair of the Academy Museum campaign, made the announcement during Sunday's live Oscars telecast. "There is plenty of culture to be found in the City of Angels," he said, noting that Los Angeles even had a selfie museum, "but there has never been a museum dedicated to the art and science of motion pictures" — until this upcoming winter.
Hanks joked that during a visit the morning before the ceremony, he was putting on some drywall at the construction site at Wilshire and Fairfax and Brad Pitt "was working on the roof with his shirt off," a nod to Pitt's role on“We cannot wait to welcome the whole world to the Academy Museum.
Highlights include the 1,000-seat David Geffen Theater, decked out with plush red handmade Italian chairs, and the glass Barbra Streisand Bridge, which connects the concrete 1939 building to architect Renzo Piano’s spherical glass dome structure, with its sweeping Hollywood Hills views. One of the first exhibits will be an immersive look at the world of Hayao Miyazaki's Studio Ghibli animated films.
The Academy Museum has experienced bumps on the road to its unveiling: The project, announced in 2012, was initially estimated at $250 million and was scheduled to open in 2017. After construction encountered
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