Central · Landmark
Academy Museum
About
The Academy Museum of Motion Pictures, run by the folks behind the Oscars, opened in 2021 at Wilshire and Fairfax. It's a restored 1939 department-store building plus Renzo Piano's sphere-shaped theater and glass rooftop terrace. Exhibits cover film history, props and costumes, and you can even accept a replica Oscar on stage.
Jasmine says
The movie museum the Oscars opened themselves.
Props, scripts, behind-the-scenes, and that glass sphere:
film lovers walk in and have a hard time leaving.
The view of the Hollywood Sign from the sphere's rooftop terrace
is, I secretly think, better than from a lot of hiking trails.
One of the cores of film, architecture and Museum Row.
Jasmine’s notes
- Miracle MileThe Academy's film museum. Most of the Nobody Wants This season two finale was shot here: the chance meeting in the elevator and the engagement party on the rooftop terrace. Ticketed. Beyond the exhibitions, it often hosts red-carpet premieres, one of the places to catch film-world events in LA.Order: See the exhibitions in the afternoon, then walk over to Urban Light and wait for the lamps
- Address
- 6067 Wilshire Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90036
- Hours
- Daily 10:00–18:00 · Closed TueChecked on the official site Nov 2026; confirm before you go
- Website
- academymuseum.org →
Where I wrote about it
- Everybody Wants This LA
- Celebrity Spotting
- Every LA Itinerary
- Before the Getty closes, which LA museums should you see? | The LA museum guide 2026
- LA rainy-day backups
- Which Hollywood studio tour should you pick? | Warner Bros., Universal, Paramount and Sony, explained
- Will you really see celebrities in LA? | The LA celebrity map 2026
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