Long overdue, the Los Angeles Film Museum will open its doors this year and will include a tribute to the late Kirk Douglas, announced the Academy of Oscars, which carries the project. It took almost a century for the idea of a museum dedicated to the 7th art to see the light of day and the building designed by the Italian architect Renzo Piano, which was supposed to open in 2017, lagged behind.

It was before the 92nd edition of the Oscars that the Academy finally organized a site visit for the press on Friday, which is not located in Hollywood but a few kilometers further south. A gigantic sphere of glass, steel and concrete stands on the side of the museum, seeming to float above the ground to embody "the magic of the movies".