Skirball Cultural Center

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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, and community 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 site was designed by internationally renowned Boston-based architect Moshe Safdie. Safdie is best know for his groundbreaking work for the 1967 World's Expo, Habitat.

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 Skirball has recently added a new permanent exhibition to its vast collection. The new permanent exhibition is called ''Noah's Ark at the Skirball." This area is s family friendly area with pieces that are avialble for children to touch as well as mechanisms that children may operate.

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The Center is named after philanthropist-couple Jack Skirball and Audrey Skirball-Kenis, whose foundation largely funded its construction.

The Skirball is visited by over 400,000 people each year[1].