A new Hollywoodland permanent exhibit will trace the history of cinema in Los Angeles, including the contributions of Universal Pictures founder Carl Laemmle. (photo courtesy the Margaret Herrick Library)

Beginning this summer, the Academy Museum will open the exhibition Regeneration: Black Cinema 1898-1971, which will explore the history of Black cinema, from its earliest days to just after the civil rights movement. In the fall, the museum will open galleries devoted to Francis Ford Coppola’s “The Godfather” (1972) and the influ­ences of French filmmaker Agnès Varda.

In early 2023, several new exhibi­tions will open, including spaces dedicated to “Boyz n the Hood” (1991), “Casablanca” (1942), docu­mentarian Lourdes Portillo and the collaborative work of production designer Sarah Greenwood and set decorator Katie Spencer.

In late spring 2023, the Academy Museum will open its first perma­nent exhibition Hollywoodland, which will chronicle the founding and the founders of the Hollywood studio system in Los Angeles. In addition, new objects, images and interviews will be added to numer­ous galleries, including Gregory Peck’s Oscar for “To Kill a Mockingbird” (1962), storyboards and scripts from Alfred Hitchcock’s “Rebecca” (1940) and “The Birds” (1963), costumes designed by Travis Banton, Edith Head and Ann Roth and interviews with film editors Maysie Hoy, Carol Littleton, Sam Pollard and others.

Concurrently, the Academy Museum’s public spaces – the Sidney Poitier Grand Lobby, the Ted Mann Lobby, the Netflix Lounge, the Walt Disney Company Piazza, the Dolby Family Terrace, the Gerry Schwartz and Heather Reisman Mezzanine and the spine of the museum – will be refreshed by Kulapat Yantrasast and WHY Architecture. Incorporating cin­ematic elements and moments of dig­ital engagement and connectivity, these spaces will be designed to more deeply enhance the visitor experience.

“The history of film is endlessly rich and varied, which is why we envisioned the exhibitions of the Academy Museum as a continually evolving set of installations and vir­tual content. We are delighted to pre­sent a new round of stories, explo­rations, moving images, props and other objects that explore the many facets of moviemaking, from the founding of Hollywood to present day. These rotations give our visitors many wonderful reasons to come back, while offering an extraordi­nary invitation to others to engage with the museum,” Bill Kramer, director and president of the Academy Museum, said.

“In our core exhibition, we are excited to continue offering a multi­tude of perspectives on film and filmmaking, drawing on the unmatched resources of our collec­tion,” Jacqueline Stewart, chief artis­tic and programming officer of the Academy Museum, said.