Los Angeles film museum to open with show on Studio Ghibli co-founder Hayao Miyazaki
- The brainchild of the institution behind the Oscars, the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures will open in 2019
- Inaugural show on Hayao Miyazaki will be the first of its scope in the United States
Nearly a century after the idea was first floated, a museum dedicated to the magic of cinema is finally set to open in Los Angeles, with the first temporary exhibition dedicated to the Japanese animator Hayao Miyazaki.
The Academy Museum of Motion Pictures, scheduled to open by the end of 2019, will be devoted to the past, present and future of film, offering visitors a look behind the screen and into how movies are made.
“Los Angeles was at one time, and still is to some degree, one of the major capitals for the production of film … so it seems the natural place to have a major museum to ensure that the legacy of film lives on,” said Kerry Brougher, director of the museum.
The museum is the brainchild of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, the institution behind the Oscars.
Dorothy’s famed ruby slippers from The Wizard of Oz, a copy of a script annotated by Gregory Peck for the 1962 drama To Kill a Mockingbird, the doors to Rick’s Café Américain from Casablanca, and the typewriter used by Joseph Stefano to write the screenplay to Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho are among the trove of objects that will be on display.