The film academy’s scrapped Hollywood movie museum project
A worker cuts the grass at the Hollywood property that the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences sold in January after deciding not to build a $400-million movie museum there. Instead, the academy is planning to open a museum on the Los Angeles County Museum of Art campus. (Francine Orr/ Los Angeles Times)
The historic May Co. building on the Los Angeles County Museum of Art campus would be incorporated into a $300-million movie museum built by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. (Anne Cusack/ Los Angeles Times)
Jorge Rodriguez’s Peruvian eatery Los Balcones is across the street from the Hollywood site where the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences had planned to build a film museum. He decided to expand his eatery, anticipating big business once the development opened. But after the academy canceled its Hollywood museum plans, Rodriguez was left wondering what to do with the additional space for which he’d signed a long-term lease. (Gary Friedman / Los Angeles Times)
In January, Kilroy Realty Corp. paid $46 million for the 3.5-acre parcel on which the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences once planned to build a movie museum. (Francine Orr/ Los Angeles Times)
