Annenberg Space for Photography, Photography museum in Century City, Los Angeles, US
The Annenberg Space for Photography was a photography museum in the Century City neighborhood of Los Angeles, developed and operated by the Annenberg Foundation. It opened in March 2009 and closed permanently in 2020. Its galleries combined digital projection with displays of printed photographs.
The Annenberg Foundation developed and operated the museum, which opened in March 2009 in Century City. It closed temporarily in March 2020 because of the COVID-19 pandemic, and on June 8, 2020, founder Wallis Annenberg announced it would not reopen. During its ten years it staged 31 exhibitions visited by almost 1 million people.
The museum's name came from the Annenberg Foundation, which developed and ran it. Its tenth-anniversary celebration on April 25, 2019, opened Contact High: A Visual History of Hip Hop alongside the west coast debut of Photoville, New York City's largest photography festival.
The museum closed permanently in June 2020 after shutting in March 2020 because of the COVID-19 pandemic, so there are no visiting hours. Its 31 exhibitions had drawn almost 1 million visitors over ten years. The site is in Century City, Los Angeles.
When the venue closed in 2020, the Annenberg Foundation transferred its entire photography collection along with substantial funds to the Library of Congress. This move preserved the photographic materials and made them accessible to researchers and the public on a national scale.
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