Exterior, May Company department store, 6067 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles, California, 1942. Courtesy of the Bison Archives photographs at the Margaret Herrick Library

May Company department store, 1942.

Exterior Rendering, Fairfax Avenue and Wilshire Boulevard ©Renzo Piano Building Workshop/©Academy Museum Foundation/Image from L’Autre Image


The Academy Museum of Motion Pictures as seen from Wilshire Boulevard and Fairfax Avenue in Los Angeles, California. ©Renzo Piano Building Workshop/©Academy Museum Foundation/Images from L’Autre Image.



Academy Museum of Motion Pictures, view from Wilshire Boulevard and Fairfax Avenue

Exterior Rendering, Fairfax Avenue and Wilshire Boulevard

View from Wilshire Boulevard and Fairfax Avenue. Photo by Joshua White/JW Pictures, ©Academy Museum Foundation

The Academy Museum of Motion Pictures as seen from Wilshire Boulevard and Fairfax Avenue in Los Angeles, California. Photo by Joshua White/JW Pictures, ©Academy Museum Foundation. Photo by Joshua White/JW Pictures, ©Academy Museum Foundation.

Academy Museum of Motion Pictures, Wilshire Boulevard and Fairfax Avenue

Academy Museum

See how this Streamline Moderne icon in Los Angeles was transformed into the Academy Museum

Photo by Josh White, JWPictures/©Academy Museum Foundation

Academy Museum of Motion Pictures, Pedestrian bridges, Barbra Streisand Bridge and Casey Wasserman Bridge, connecting the Sphere building with the Saban Building

Renzo Piano Building Workshop

Explore the museum’s sustainability efforts to the well-being of our planet and our community

Academy Museum of Motion Pictures, aerial view. ©Renzo Piano Building Workshop/©A.M.P.A.S./ Images from L’Autre Image

Academy Museum of Motion Pictures

LEED Gold Certification 

Discover more about the two state-of-the-art movie theaters

Courtesy of the Academy Museum Foundation, photo: Joshua White/JWPictures 

Ted Mann Theater

Theaters

Read how architect John Fidler brought this historic building back to life

Restoration expert John Fidler with deteriorated building material removed from the former May Co. building at Wilshire and Fairfax being restored as the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures. ©Academy Museum Foundation

Restoration Expert John Fidler

Historical Architecture 

Learn more about the Academy Museum’s restoration of the Saban Building’s historic mosaic façade

Building Blocks of the Academy Museum

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A look at Pritzker Prize-winning architect Renzo Piano's vision for the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures which occupies a 300,000-square-foot campus near the corner of Wilshire Boulevard and Fairfax Avenue in Los Angeles, California.


The Academy Museum of Motion Pictures as seen from Wilshire Boulevard and Fairfax Avenue in Los Angeles, California. ©Renzo Piano Building Workshop/©A.M.P.A.S./ Images from L’Autre Image

About the Building

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