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....
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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...
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