{{Short description|Jewish educational institution in Los Angeles, California}} {{For|the New York theater|Skirball Center for the Performing Arts}} {{Multiple issues| {{promotional|date=January 2014}} {{More footnotes needed|date=September 2010}} {{One source|date=March 2023}} }} {{Use mdy dates|date=March 2025}} thumb|right|450px|Skirball Cultural Center The '''Skirball Cultural Center''', founded in 1996, is a Jewish educational institution in Los Angeles, California. The center, named after philanthropist couple Jack H. Skirball and Audrey Skirball-Kenis, has a museum with regularly changing exhibitions, film events, music and theater performances, comedy, family, literary, and cultural programs. The campus includes a museum, a performing arts center, conference halls, classrooms, libraries, courtyards, gardens, and a café.
==Skirball Museum== thumb|Skirball Museum The Skirball Museum predates the Skirball Cultural Center, having been established in 1972 at the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion in Los Angeles.<ref>{{Cite web |title=30 Apr 1972, 568 - The Los Angeles Times at Newspapers.com |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/385786361/?terms=skirball%20museum&match=1 |access-date=2022-09-08 |website=Newspapers.com |language=en}}</ref> The museum moved into the Skirball Cultural Center after the center's completion. The Skirball's core exhibition, ''Visions and Values: Jewish Life from Antiquity to America'', traces the history, experiences, and values of Jews over 4,000 years. Featuring changing displays of works from Skirball's museum collection, the exhibition's galleries contain multimedia installations, rare artifacts, historical documents and photographs, works of fine art, interactive computer stations, and sound recordings that lead visitors on the Jewish people's journey, culminating with their experiences in the United States.
Comprising more than 30,000 objects, the Skirball's museum collection includes archaeological artifacts from biblical and later historical periods; Jewish ceremonial objects from countries around the world; an extensive group of Old World Jewish objects; the Project Americana collection, comprising objects that document the "everyday life of ordinary people" in the United States since the 1850s; and works of fine art in a variety of media.
==Architecture== thumb|Taper Courtyard Designed by Israeli-born architect Moshe Safdie, the campus of the Skirball Cultural Center is in the Santa Monica Mountains near the Sepulveda Pass. thumb|Pano of Skirball architecture.
==Education== thumb|Education Skirball annually serves approximately 60,000 schoolchildren and teachers, representing virtually every religious and ethnic background in Southern California.{{citation needed|date=March 2023}} The family-oriented discovery center includes a simulated dig site and field tent and informs visitors about the archaeology of ancient Israel and the Near East.{{citation needed|date=March 2023}}
thumb|right|400px|Zeidler's Cafe
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==Further reading== * [http://www.afi.com/onscreen/skirball/skirball.aspx Cinema's Legacy at the Skirball, AFI] * [http://www.skirball.org/general-info/about-the-skirball About the Skirball] * [http://www.skirball.org/general-info/philosophy-of-the-skirball Philosophy of the Skirball]
==External links== * [http://www.skirball.org/ Official website of the Skirball Cultural Center]
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