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Hollywood Museums by James Bartlett LEFT: Watch the Museum go "Back for its Future". Through grants from the National Trust for Historic Preser- vation and Paramount Pictures, the Hollywood Heritage Museum is un- dergoing a facelift as this issue goes to press. After extensive research, the Museum will be restored familiar to Cecil B. DeMille and other pio- neers of the film industry. BELOW: Historic marker proclaim- ing the Barn as Hollywood's first major film studio. Arts & Sciences bought the $50m lot adjacent to their Mary Pickford Center for Motion Picture Study and announced they were going to build a spectacular museum. Sadly, late last year, a partnership between AMPAS and F ABOVE: Re-creation of Cecil B. DeMille's office. BELOW: A treasure trove of Hollywood film legend and lore. RIGHT: Antique theatre lighting console. LACMA (the Los Angeles County Museum of Art) was announced and the museum's proposed location was to be housed in the former May Co. department store building on Wilshire, a part of the LACMA museum complex. ankfully, Hollywood still has two museums dedicated to its signature industry. Back in 1983, non-profit preservation group Hollywood Heritage gave a lifeline to Tinsel Town history with its ac- quisition of an old barn that had been kept at Paramount Pictures and was languishing behind a chain link fence seek- ing a home befitting its status as a California State Historic Landmark. ey began repairs and restoration, and then – with great fan- fare – had it slowly towed to the location of another mu- seum attempt near the Holly- wood Bowl, and opened the doors in 1985. 16 DISCOVER HOLLYWOOD / SPRING 2012 or nearly 50 years Hollywood has been trying to cre- ate its own museum, but celebrating the history of movies in the home of the movies hasn't been easy. Hopes were high when the Academy of Motion Pictures,