Skirball Cultural Center

Skirball Cultural Center

The Skirball Cultural Center is a facility in Los Angeles, California devoted to Jewish culture and heritage. The center features a museum with regularly-changing exhibitions, film events, music and theater performances, comedy, family, literary and cultural programs.

The Skirball's facilities, first opened to the public in 1996, are located in the Santa Monica Mountains, not far from the Getty Museum in the Sepulveda Pass. The address is 2701 N. Sepulveda Boulevard, Los Angeles. The site was designed by internationally-renowned Boston-based architect Moshe Safdie.

The Center is named after philanthropist-couple Jack Skirball and Audrey Skirball-Kenis, whose foundation largely funded its construction. The Center is an affiliate of Hebrew Union College.

The Skirball Museum predates the Skirball Cultural Center, having been established in 1972 at the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion in L.A. The Museum moved into the Skirball Cultural Center after the center's completion.

The museum's permanent main exhibit is called "Visions and Values: Jewish Life from Antiquity to America", and focuses on the history, accomplishments, and values of the Jewish people over 4,000 years. Exhibits show where Jews have lived around the world, how their experiences shaped current Jewish values, and the Jewish experience in the United States. "Noah’s Ark at the Skirball" is a family-oriented exhibit designed to encourage all generations to connect with one another, learn the value of community, and help build a better world. [http://www.skirball.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=28 Noah's Ark at the Skirball] The floor-to-ceiling wooden "ark" contains exploration and challenge areas along with animal puppets created from recycled materials. The museum also offers changing exhibits of art, history and culture.

ee also

*List of NPN Partners

References

External links

* [http://www.skirball.org/ Official website]

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* [http://www.afi.com/onscreen/skirball/skirball.aspx Cinema's Legacy at the Skirball, AFI]
* [http://www.usc.edu/hsc/info/pr/1volpdf/pdf03/902.pdf Skirball Foundation pledges $2 million for new chair, January 17, 2003]
* [http://www.skirball.org/press/archives/starrappt.pdf Lori Starr named Director, Skirball Museum]


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