Hollywood Heritage Museum

There are many places long forgotten or often over looked in LA. One of those spots I feel is this museum. You can easily over look if not observing the area closely. In fact it’s right across the Hollywood Bowl. Most never gaze left as they drive down south to the famous boulevard.
In fact if you ever did glimpse at it, most likely appeared to you as a simple little house on a large property. But this little joint is not your typical museum, this little place is one of the original stepping stones of Hollywood. Where dreams came true to many filmmakers and actors.
Inside the museum I feel as though you are time traveling into the past and seeing famous items lost in time. Buried treasure found for the first time again. A certain vibe of nostalgia and importance can fill you viewing some of these historical pieces.
Hopefully this spot stays with us forever, which is why I highly recommend visiting. Any film buff will be at awed at this little museum, even if it’s not as gigantic as those other spots, it gives ya quite punch of history.
On certain Saturday’s, they offer walking tours of the real Hollywood. None of your pop culture trivia but the real guts and glory on how this town became what it is now. Truly a treasure to this epic and eccentric city.

The first Hollywood film was shot here, not at this location, it was closer to Vine & Sunset; however, in this building. Great piece of Hollywood history. Volunteer staff is friendly and close to Metro. Stop by the Hollywood Bowl Museum across the street and have lunch in the Highland Camrose Park

This is a great little museum stop (it has free parking immediately surrounding it in the Hollywood Bowl lot closest to Hollywood on the Easthand side), and fills a void between the slick museums and the studio tours. It’s a resettled barn from the original site, nicely preserved. It doesn’t seem the displays change much, but it’s a «homey» small museum for those interested in old early 1900s movie history. Not sure it’s of interest to kids, though it’s a quick stop and has bathrooms so that might help if you have kids. The docent when I was there was wonderful, knowledgeable, passionate, and helpful. Worth an hour or two, and although some might find the $ 7 admission steep, your $$ will go to a good cause to keep this place running.
I liked the old films, which are «dated» in terms of production value, but show a lot of historical video of old Hollywood.

If you enjoy the history of Hollywood, you’ll love the Barn. It was where the first movie was filmed. How can you not love that? Also, it’s not the yellow it used to be, it’s now a darker color, like a dark green. It has great history on the Inside. Highly recommended you visit this museum at least once.

The place itself is a bit unassuming. Museums these days are all gaudi eyesores. This is HISTORY. For those who are interested in the grand old days of the silver screen, come on down here. It’s amazing to see how the general set up of how the movie industry works is essentially the same, except technology has gotten better. I went to this museum after having a few drinks at the Highland-​Hollywood area, walked up and made a nice afternoon out of it. I am an actor and I think that every actor should check this out to get a sense of how things were, and get tips on how things should be.

who would have thought that cecil b. de mille could create such grand theatre in such a small barn!
this modest, chick-​yellow building now houses a small, but excellent museum about very early hollywood, on this site, and elsewhere.
wonderful ephemera as well as other vestiges of material culture at the dawn of the moving picture.
i recommend joining the museum, or the los angeles conservancy if such things interest you.