Academy Museum Finally Opens

Karen Kaye
4 min readOct 5, 2021

After years of waiting, A Dream finally came true.

After 92 years, the Academy dream was finally made a reality. The founders of the Academy had a vision of making a museum like this. The first offices of the Academy of Motion Pictures were located in the Taft Building at the corner of Hollywood and Vine, which is a 12-story building.

The Academy was founded in 1927, as a non profit organization and it originally had 36 members. In 2012, their vision started to unfold when they hired architect Renzo Piano Building workshop for the new Academy Museum of…

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Karen Kaye

Hollywood Happenings is an on-line community newspaper, created, copyrighted and trademarked in 2003. I am an award winning sports writer, Red Carpet interviews