Academy Museum of Motion Pictures

The Academy Museum of Motion Pictures is a future museum in Los Angeles, California currently under construction. It is scheduled to open in 2018 and will contain over 290,000 square feet of galleries, exhibition spaces, movie theaters, educational areas, and special event spaces.

The Academy Museum will be located next to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) campus in the historic 1939 May Company building on Wilshire Boulevard, which will be extensively expanded and renovated to accommodate the museum. The expansion and architectural plans were designed by Pritzker Prize-winning architect Renzo Piano and innovative contemporary architect Zoltan Pali.

The project is currently led by Kerry Brougher, Director of the Academy Museum. Previously, after raising $250 million and moving the project through the City of Los Angeles public approvals process, Bill Kramer, was Managing Director of the Academy Museum, He left the project to become the Vice President of RISD (the Rhode Island School of Design) starting in January 2016.