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Museum of the Moving Image is a great destination for families. Check out the various programs and events suitable for all ages. Includes information on guided tours, our media and game labs, and our ongoing array of family-friendly screenings and events, including many Henson-related and animated films.

Join us in celebrating Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s birthday with a talk, tours, digital media-making activities, and a documentary screening. Events include a family day and screenings of the documentary Chisholm '72: Unbought and Unbossed.

Our call for submissions is now open for the 2025 Marvels of Media Festival until January 31! Our festival showcases, celebrates, and supports autistic media-makers of all ages. Submit your films, video art, virtual reality, episodic series, and video games. Learn more and how to submit to the festival.

A singular collaboration between vanguard filmmaker Nicolas Roeg and visionary artist Jim Henson, The Witches adapts one of Roald Dahl’s most frightful books for children with phantasmagoric gusto. With Craig Shemin, President of the Jim Henson Legacy, in person!

Explore a world of opportunities with more than 50 career and technology vendors, thrilling gaming battles for cash prizes, and engaging fireside chats and tech panels led by industry leaders.

Now in its fourth season, Couples Therapy continues to operate at the vanguard of both nonfiction television and our cultural awareness of the therapeutic process. We present two episodes, followed by a discussion with executive producer Josh Kriegman, executive producer Elyse Steinberg, Dr. Orna Guralnik, and psychiatrist and author Dr. Mark Epstein on January 31.

The interactive animation section of the Museum’s core exhibition will be reimagined with a special focus on stop-motion-animation director Adam Elliot’s new film Memoir of a Snail.

First Look, MoMI’s annual festival for adventurous new cinema, introduces New York audiences to more than two dozen works hailing from nearly as many countries, encompassing feature and short films; fiction and nonfiction; New York premieres and works in progress; experiments with—and exemplary expressions of—form. Learn more about this exciting event.

Read this MoMI Story to learn all about The Astoria Studio (now Kaufman Astoria Studios), which has been at the heart of filmmaking in New York City since 1920, and has a fascinating history integral to the origin of Museum of the Moving Image.

Sloan Science & Film, an initiative of the Museum of the Moving Image, examines the intersection of science and cinema. Watch short films, read interviews, and get all the latest info on science and film.

Read reviews, essays, interviews, and wide-ranging symposia; watch original video content; and dig through the vast archives in MoMI's online publication.