Academy Museum of Motion Pictures
Streamline Moderne department store turned film museum, its restored gold-leaf dome anchoring Hollywood's history and controversies alike.
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Los Angeles's Academy Museum of Motion Pictures opened in September 2021 inside a restored 1939 department store on Wilshire Boulevard, backed by a fifty-million-dollar gift from Haim and Cheryl Saban. The guide follows the controversy that erupted that same night, when Saban and other guests noticed the new galleries barely mentioned the immigrant Jewish moguls who built Hollywood, and the sharp criticism that followed from historians and Jewish organizations. It's a tour built around an argument over whose story a movie museum should tell.
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