Patrick Frater Asia Bureau ChiefThe Australian Centre for the Moving Image (ACMI) in Melbourne reopened on Wednesday after a $30.9 million (A$40 million) overhaul.Before it closed the venue, which evolved from the State Film Centre of Victoria, was the second most visited museum in Australia and claimed to be the most visited film museum in the world.
However, its central permanent exhibition Screen Worlds, which opened in 2009 was falling behind the digital times.The planned revamp of Screen Worlds led in 2017 to a “holistic review of our museum,” Kyra Sedgwick, the ACMI’s director explained at the reopening ceremony.
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