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See 10,000 REAL Showbiz Treasures!
Visit the world’s largest collection of costumes, props, posters, photographs and other priceless memorabilia from Hollywood’s greatest films, TV shows and music acts.
See costumes worn by Zac Efron and the cast of "High School Musical 3: Senior Year" plus the dresses worn by Beyonce Knowles and Jennifer Hudson in "Dreamgirls." See items from "The Sopranos," "Harry Potter," "Star Trek," "Baywatch," "Oceans 11," "Sweeney Todd," "Gone with the Wind," "I Love Lucy." Also — Rocky’s boxing gloves, Marilyn Monroe’s dresses, Elvis Presley’s favorite bathrobe, Indiana Jones’ whip, Pamela Anderson’s "Baywatch" swimsuit, Cary Grant’s Rolls-Royce, the shark seen in "Jaws," the church pews from "The Exorcist," Tom Cruise’s eyeball-switcher from "Minority Report" (and the eyeballs), Nicole Kidman’s’ sexy outfits and swing from "Moulin Rouge!"
SPECIAL EXHIBITIONS EXTENDED — The "High School Musical 3: Senior Year" exhibit includes the basketball uniform worn by Zac Efron as he sings alone in the school auditorium, "I want my own dream so bad I’m gonna scream!" Other costumes on display include costar Vanessa Hudgens’ cheerleader outfit. Both stars’ prom outfits are among the formal wear of four couples. Also extended is the museum’s huge "Dreamgirls" display featuring costumes donned by Beyonce Knowles, Jennifer Hudson, Anika Noni Rose, Jamie Foxx and Eddie Murphy in addition to the film’s famed 1962 solid gold Cadillac.
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ALSO ON EXTENDED DISPLAY: Co-sponsored with the Los Angeles Times’ The Envelope, the awards season exhibition showcases the long leather coat that kept Brad Pitt warm aboard the sea-tossed barge in "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button," Meryl Streep’s forbidding black nun’s habit in "Doubt" and many outfits worn by Oscar Best Actress champ Kate Winslet in "The Reader."
IF YOU DARE: Visit Hannibal Lecter’s jail cell from "The Silence of the Lambs." It’s in our basement — along with other shocking items in the Hollywood Museum’s Chamber of Horrors. Go face to face with the masks of Jason and Mike Myers from the "Friday the 13th" and "Halloween" movie series and see up close the corpses, mummies and masks from Boris Karloff’s, Lon Chaney Jr. and Brendan Fraser’s "The Mummy" films. Get cozy with the Dead Man in the Basement from "Hell Night." See the guillotine and severed heads from "Quills." See costumes worn by Vampira and Elvira, Mistress of the Dark plus Sarah Michelle Gellar’s "corpse" fished out of the lake in "I Know What You Did Last Summer."
The Hollywood Museum also features costumes and memorabilia from films and TV shows starring Antonio Banderas, Leonardo DiCaprio, Jim Carrey, George Clooney, Jean-Claude Van Damme, Reese Witherspoon, Russell Crowe, Will Smith, Charlie Chaplin, Bette Davis, Judy Garland, Greta Garbo, Rudolph Valentino, Joan Crawford, Bob Hope and many more!
The Hollywood Museum is located in the historica Max Factor Building where the cosmetics pioneer made showbiz’s beauty queens glamorous. Visit the private beauty salons where Marilyn Monroe became a blonde and Max Factor transformed Lucille Ball into a redhead!
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The Hollywood Museum is housed in the world famous historic Max Factor Building, where Max Factor, wizard of movie make-up worked his magic on motin picture stars since 1935. The lobby, has been restired to its original grandeur. A polished Art Deco gem - a white & rose-colored oasis of lavish marble, recreated historic chandeliers, pastel hues, antique furniture, trompe l’eouille, faux finishes with 22kt. gold and silver leafing. On the ground floor, you’ll find many original displays from the old Max Factor Make-Up Studio.
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The Hollywood Museum Museum features four floors of exhibits (two floors above the lobby and a basement below), offering more than 35,000 square feet of exhibit space. To put that in perspective, it is seven times the size of the nearby Guinness World of Record Museum (5,200 square feet), almost four times the size of the neighboring Ripley’s Believe It Or Not museum (10,000 square feet), and five times larger than the Warner Bros Museum (at 7,000 square feet). Yet that still isn’t really room enough to do justice to the thousands of items on exhibit here!
Relax, the museum is a self-guided tour, so you can spend as long as you like admiring any exhibit.
The ground floor is made up of the historic Lobby, plus Max Factor’s restored make-up rooms, a vintage B&W photo gallery featuring more than 1000 B&W photos. Cary Grant’s Rolls Royce, Planet of the Apes, Jurassic Park, a tribute to Judy Garland and the "Red Shoes"!
The second and third floors are devoted exclusively to costumes worn by famous stars in famous films, corresponding props, photos, memorabilia and posters. wealth of Hollywood memorabilia, ranging from the earliest Technicolor film ever shot, to a Roman bed from "Gladiator", to the dog from "There’s something about Mary" to the gold Cadillac from "Dreamgirls".
Don’t forget to visit the Lower Level - what once was a bowling alley and speakeasy during Prohibition days is now where we house "all things creepy and scary"! Walk down the same jail cell corridor that Jodie Foster walked in "Silence of the Lambs". See Hannibals cell and a fantastic array of props from the film including Dr. Hannibal Lecter’s mask!
Taken floor by floor, here are just some of the highlights of the many exhibits:- Click Here
