"We plan on having Bruce greet our visitors for as long as we can keep him up there," Kramer said. Almost a half-century after Bruce made generations of kids and adults scared to get in the water, he's now beckoning film lovers into a museum. Kramer said they expect Bruce to be a huge draw for visitors, which is why he'll be hanging in a public area where people can see him without having to pay for a museum ticket. Seeing him lifted into the building was "such an exciting moment," she said. Shraddha Aryal, Vice President of Exhibition Design and Production, described the years of painstakingly detailed modelling and work that went in to preparing for this moment, including full-scale mock-ups and light tests to ensure that all of Bruce's 116 teeth would be visible to tourists. Once inside with fins reattached and a final touching up, Bruce was hooked onto five cables, each of which could hold his weight if any were to fail, and hoisted up on a truss by remote control to get into position in the building's "spine" where he faces East and is visible from Fairfax. Last week Bruce was transported from a storage facility on a 70-foot flatbed to the museum at Fairfax Avenue and Wilshire Boulevard where engineers, construction workers and art handlers removed two panels of glass three stories up to get him into the building. But Bruce is their biggest piece to date and everyone soon realised that he wouldn't be able to get into the building with his fins attached. Pritzker Prize-winning architect Renzo Piano made sure to account for large-scale objects in his restoration of the Saban Building, which was originally the May Company department store. Restoration was one thing, but loading Bruce into the museum proved to be another ordeal. We're in an incredibly privileged position." "We can call on our members and other members of the film industry who have either worked on the film that the artefact is from or know enough about the provenance and work that had been done to help us restore it. "One of the great things about being the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures is that we have access to Academy members in all craft areas of the industry," said Academy Museum Director Bill Kramer.
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