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30 September 2021. Inauguration of the world’s largest museum. It could be nowhere else but Los Angeles. A tribute to the history of cinema by Renzo Piano.
Inauguration of the LARGEST CINEMA MUSEUM in the world. Designed by Renzo Piano
# The biggest cinema museum ever built
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Not to take anyhing away from the museums of cinema in other places in the world, but we have never seen such a structure fully dedicated to the art of cinema. About 28,000 square metres of exhibition space on several floors: this is what Renzo Piano designed and built in Los Angeles, in the Miracle Mile districtto be precise. The largest museum in the world dedicated to cinema. Renovating a former warehouse of the 1930s, Renzo Piano designed a spectacular structure worthy of hosting a museum entirely devoted to the art of entertainment. On top of the structure, he designed a glass and concrete volume in the shape of a sphere.
# The dream farm
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The museum hosts both a permanent and temporary exhibitions. Videos, posters, vintage photographs, costumes and props, collections related to people who have made the history of motion pictures, and pieces of films fill the rooms of the museum, making it a kind of dream industry. The museum also features a 1,000-seat movie theater and the 288-seat Ted Mann Theatre.
# The exhibition route
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The Academy Museum of Motion Pictures opens its doors to the public with the main exhibition entitled ‘Stories of Cinema’, which is distributed on three floors and takes up a space of around 3000 square metres. It starts with a video installation telling the story of cinema, from the Lumière brothers to the present day, in the Spielberg Family Gallery. Then, there is the Wanda Gallery, an entrance gallery with floor-to-ceiling projections of film clips, and then the Significant Movies and Moviemakers.
A must-see for all visitors is the Academy Awards hall, where the most important statuette of all times, the Oscar, is described, with its most famous victories and its rejections that have made history. And that’s not all. In The Oscar Experience, visitors can simulate winning the statuette and accepting the Oscar in the Dolby Theatre.
#The temporary exhibition
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More halls unfold inside the world’s largest film museum. There are many other halls, such as the one devoted to the effects of cinema on social issues, for example on labour relations, and the #MeToo movement. In addition to the “Stories of Cinema” exhibition rooms, the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures is dedicating the first few months after its opening to Hayao Miyazaki, the magician of animated cinema.
