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The original museum in Los Angeles, California, opened in 1993. It was built at a cost of $50 million by the Simon Wiesenthal Center, named after its founder Simon Wiesenthal, a Holocaust survivor and Nazi hunter. [2] The museum receives 350,000 visitors annually, about a third of which are school-age children.
Skirball Cultural Center. The Skirball Cultural Center, founded in 1996, is a Jewish educational institution in Los Angeles, California.The center, named after philanthropist couple Jack H. Skirball and Audrey Skirball-Kenis, has a museum with regularly changing exhibitions, film events, music and theater performances, comedy, family, literary, and cultural programs.
This list of museums in Los Angeles is a list of museums located within the City of Los Angeles, defined for this context as institutions (including nonprofit organizations, government entities, and private businesses) that collect and care for objects of cultural, artistic, scientific, or historical interest and make their collections or related exhibits available for public viewing.
An audience of some 150 people gathered at Los Angeles' Museum of Tolerance on Wednesday for a private screening of graphic footage of Hamas' attacks against Israel last month, titled "Bearing ...
[6] Unlike the Museum of Tolerance of Los Angeles, the MTJ will not deal with the Holocaust since Yad Vashem in Jerusalem is already dedicated to this purpose. [1] Another goal of the MTJ is to revive the city center as a venue for theater and music performances, conventions, food and wine festivals, children's events and art workshops. [1]
MOCA's permanent collection exhibitions show how, when the museum was founded in the late 1970s, it represented something wholly new: the beginning of L.A. art's full-scale institutionalization.
The exhibition was created by the Israel Antiquities Authority with items from ... Los Angeles, California: March 10, 2015 – September 7, 2015 Denver Museum of ...
Collaboration among L.A.'s top art institutions reached new heights Monday as the Hammer Museum, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and the Museum of Contemporary Art announced the joint ...