Hollywood Heritage Museum

Hollywood California Driving Tour

2100 North Highland

Continue south on Highland. The museum is the yellow-colored building on the left.

• Cost: Admission fee
• Open: Open weekends only. Check current hours
• Location: Highland Avenue, directions below
• How Long: Allow an hour or two
• Best Time to Visit: Any time

The Hollywood Heritage Museum is a testament to Hollywood's infancy and stands as an oasis of history and preservation in a town that has long outgrown its rural beginnings. Filled with artifacts, photographs and trivia from the earliest days of Hollywood, the Hollywood Heritage Museum is a must see for movie buffs and historians alike.

Located in the old Lasky-DeMille Barn where Jesse Lasky (producer) and Cecil B. DeMille (producer/director) made several of their collaborative pictures, the museum is mostly devoted to DeMille‚s illustrious career from the silent days of The Squaw Man (1914) to his epic 1956 production of The Ten Commandments.

The building itself has a long and interesting history starting in 1895 when the barn was erected on a Southern California citrus farm.

Visitors can also view original artifacts and props from the silent era, not to mention other exhibits highlighting other early film legends such as D.W. Griffith.

Getting to Hollywood Heritage Museum

2100 North Highland
Hollywood, CA
Hollywood Heritage Museum website

From Hwy 101, exit on Highland and go south. The museum will be on the left, just across from the Hollywood Bowl.

- This review was written by Sean Malone, a graduate film student at the University of Miami and native of Tucson, Arizona.