Academy Museum of Motion Pictures
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Academy Museum of Motion Pictures is a museum in California, at a modelled elevation of 51 m. Mount Deception stands 1,767 m to the northeast, 19 miles off. The nearest named place is Broad Contemporary Art Museum, a museum 0.1 miles away. Arroyo Seco Historic Parkway - Route 110 passes 6.4 miles off.
The story
The Academy Museum of Motion Pictures is a film museum that opened in 2021 located in Los Angeles, California, United States on Miracle Mile. The first large-scale museum of its kind in the United States, it houses part of the Academy Collection, the largest film-related collection in the world, with more than 52 million objects from notable films, and is dedicated to the arts, history, science, and artists of moviemaking and the film industry. The museum is located in the historic May Company Building at the intersection of Wilshire Boulevard and Fairfax Avenue, part of Museum Row on the Miracle Mile. It is overseen by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS).
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Dates from 2012.
Wikidata Q6941059, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Built
- 2021-09-30
What to expect
- Operated by
- Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
How to reach it
- 6.4 mi off the Arroyo Seco Historic Parkway - Route 110, National
Overlooks nearby
- Point Grandview · 8 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Broad Contemporary Art Museum: 0.1 mi
- Petersen Automotive Museum: 0.1 mi
- Los Angeles County Museum of Art: 0.1 mi
- La Brea Tar Pits and Museum: 0.2 mi
- Craft Contemporary: 0.3 mi
- Levitated Mass: 0.1 mi
- Urban Light: 0.1 mi
- Smoke: 0.1 mi
- Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Sculpture Garden: 0.1 mi
- G. Allan Hancock: 0.3 mi
- Observation Pit: 0.1 mi
- Pit 13: 0.2 mi
- Pit 91: 0.2 mi
- Project 23: 0.2 mi
- Pit 9: 0.2 mi
- Berlin Wall Segments - Wall Project: 0.1 mi
- Edmund D. Edelman: 0.3 mi
- Portolá Trail 1769: 0.9 mi
- Babij Yar Massacre Memorial: 2.1 mi
- WWII Soviet Army Veterans Memorial: 2.1 mi
- Hancock Park: 0.2 mi
- Carthay Circle Park: 0.4 mi
- Wilshire Green Park: 0.4 mi
- Lower Carthay Circle Park: 0.4 mi
- Pan Pacific Park: 0.8 mi
- Pleistocene Garden: 0.2 mi
- Funkmeyer New Reality Garden: 1.7 mi
- Spanish Garden: 2.9 mi
- Italian Rose Garden: 2.9 mi
- Rose Garden: 2.9 mi
- MRCA Open Space: 3.0 mi
- MRCA Open Space: 3.3 mi
- LADWP Open Space: 3.5 mi
- MRCA Open Space: 3.6 mi
- La Brea Green Belt: 3.8 mi
- Baldwin Hills: 3.4 mi
- Briar Summit: 4.4 mi
- Olive Hill: 4.6 mi
- Maltman peak: 5.0 mi
- Burbank Peak: 5.3 mi
- Lake Side: 3.7 mi
- Garden Grove: 3.7 mi
- Blue Lagoon: 3.8 mi
- Burke-Roche Picnic Area: 3.9 mi
- Picnic Central: 3.9 mi
- Temescal Falls: 10.1 mi
- Santa Ynez Falls: 12.1 mi
- Brown Mountain Dam Waterfall: 15.8 mi
- Millard Falls: 16.5 mi
- Royal Falls: 17.1 mi
- Mother's Beach: 7.9 mi
- Palisades Beach: 9.1 mi
- Will Rogers State Beach: 11.1 mi
- El Segundo Beach: 11.2 mi
- Castle Rock Beach: 11.7 mi
- Kuruvungna Springs: 5.7 mi
- Siutcanga Spring(LA River source): 10.3 mi
- Eagle Spring: 12.2 mi
- Goldenrod Spring: 15.8 mi
- Fascination Spring: 16.0 mi
- Upper Switzer Falls Grotto: 17.9 mi
- Porter Ranch Palisades: 18.8 mi
- Porter Ranch Palisades: 19.1 mi
- Porter Ranch Palisades: 19.2 mi
- Malibu Bluffs: 19.7 mi
- Spa Palace: 5.3 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 19.2 miles of Academy Museum of Motion Pictures. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mount Deception | NE 48° | 1,767 m | 19.0 mi |
| Mount Markham | NE 51° | 1,746 m | 19.2 mi |
| Mount Lowe | NE 51° | 1,699 m | 18.6 mi |
| Mount Lukens | NNE 26° | 1,546.6 m | 15.8 mi |
| Condor Point | NNE 22° | 1,538.3 m | 19.2 mi |
| Muir Peak | NE 54° | 1,427 m | 18.1 mi |
| Brown Mountain | NE 46° | 1,363 m | 17.1 mi |
| Hoyt Mountain | NE 36° | 1,346 m | 17.7 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 06:58 | 18:32 | 19:05 |
| June solstice | 05:43 | 19:32 | 20:09 |
| September equinox | 06:42 | 18:19 | 18:52 |
| December solstice | 06:56 | 16:10 | 16:49 |
Local time (America/Los_Angeles).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: year-round.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 60 | 59 | 60 | 62 | 63 | 66 | 70 | 71 | 71 | 68 | 64 | 59 |
| Precip in | 4.1 | 4.7 | 2.7 | 0.8 | 0.4 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 0.7 | 1.0 | 2.9 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — U C L A, 5 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikipediaWikidataOfficial siteOpenStreetMap element way/913293590
Day trips start here
- Los Angeles/Wilshire · 2 mi
- West Hollywood · 2 mi
- Beverly Hills · 3 mi
- Los Angeles/Hollywood · 3 mi
- Los Angeles/West · 4 mi
- Culver City · 5 mi
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