We visited The Academy Museum located in Museum Row in Los Angeles. They are currently exhibiting the following: Stories of Cinema, The Path to Cinema: Highlights from the Richard Balzer Collection, Regeneration: Black Cinema, 1898–1971, and Backdrop: An Invisible Art.
The exhibitions contain West by Northwest film backdrops. Learn about how set designers create movie magic.
Hollywoodland: Jewish Founders and the Making of a Movie Capital, presented in English and Spanish, tells the origin story of filmmaking in early 20th-century Los Angeles, spotlighting the impact of the predominately Jewish filmmakers whose establishment of the American film studio system transformed Los Angeles into a global epicenter of cinema.
The Academy Museum is located at 6067 Wilshire Boulevard Los Angeles, CA 90036. Schedule your visit on Sunday to Thursday: 10am–6pm and Friday to Saturday: 10am–8pm.