Museums

Drop-in Tours: Exploring Identity

Identity Gallery
Free w/ GA    |  Oct 4, 2024  |  1:00PM - 3:00PM
Academy Museum of Motion Pictures

Discover cherished works in the museum’s core exhibition, Stories of Cinema, on Fridays with museum educators.

In cinema, identities are highlighted in real life via documentaries or expressed through character design, costumes, makeup, and hairstyling.

Join museum educators as they highlight the multiple ways identities are created and explored in Stories of Cinema 2. Visitors can explore the people-focused documentary style of the late Lourdes Portillo in the Significant Movies and Moviemakers gallery, as well as the notebook and annotated shooting script from Mosquito y Mari (2012), a coming-of-age story written and directed by Aurora Guerrero, located in the Story gallery.

Continuing through Stories of Cinema 2, the Identity gallery highlights a vibrant array of costumes, hair and makeup designs, and props that are critical to creating a character and exploring their identities. Conversations with museum educators will also center around the hairstyling of Yolanda Toussieng (Mrs. Doubtfire, 1993) and the makeup creations of Ken Diaz (My Family/Mi Familia, 1995) and how their creative designs transformed performers into memorable characters.

These unique, individual stories are featured throughout Stories of Cinema 2. All are welcome to join these public, drop-in-style gallery highlights—free with admission—from 1pm to 3pm. Stay for a few minutes or for as long as you like with a museum educator!

If you have any questions or need assistance planning your visit, please email museumeducation@oscars.org.