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GENERAL ADMISSION
You can buy admission tickets online. Pick a date and time to visit the Museum. Timed-entry slots are released generally one-month prior. All sales are final and payments cannot be refunded.
Week of Events
Tut’s Fever Movie Palace
Tut’s Fever Movie Palace
Tut’s Fever is a working movie theater and art installation created by Red Grooms and Lysiane Luong, an homage to the ornate, exotic picture palaces of the 1920s
Behind the Screen
Behind the Screen
The Museum's core exhibition immerses visitors in the creative and technical process of producing, promoting, and presenting films, television shows, and digital entertainment.
The Jim Henson Exhibition: Imagination Unlimited
The Jim Henson Exhibition: Imagination Unlimited
This traveling exhibition explores Jim Henson’s groundbreaking work for film and television and his transformative impact on popular culture.
The Jim Henson Exhibition
The Jim Henson Exhibition
This dynamic experience explores Jim Henson’s groundbreaking work for film and television and his transformative impact on culture.
Creatures from the Land of Thra: Character Design for The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance
Creatures from the Land of Thra: Character Design for The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance
This exhibition explores the process of designing the fantastical characters for the Netflix series prequel to the 1982 film.
The Situation Room
The Situation Room
Commissioned by the Museum, seven artists have each created four original GIFs that will be presented as two-month installations on the walls and ceiling of the visitor elevator.
Dialogues with the Unseen: Short Films from Southeast Asia
Dialogues with the Unseen: Short Films from Southeast Asia
Six short works that touch on the theme of unseen forces that shape our world, created by artists from Southeast Asia.
Icons: Framing Images of Black Women on Movie Posters
Icons: Framing Images of Black Women on Movie Posters
An exhibit of lobby cards and posters from the 1930s through the 2010s for American films with Black women in featured roles.
An Act of Seeing: Barry Jenkins’s The Gaze
An Act of Seeing: Barry Jenkins’s The Gaze
In his companion piece installation to The Underground Railroad, Jenkins further engages ideas about visibility, history, and power in moving-image portraits of the show’s background actors.
“A Wonderful, Awful Idea”: Animating the Grinch Who Stole Christmas
“A Wonderful, Awful Idea”: Animating the Grinch Who Stole Christmas
The sketches, animation cels, and backgrounds illustrate Chuck Jones’s approach to adapting Theodor Geisel’s classic story for the screen in this temporary exhibition.
Old School Kung Fu Fest: Joseph Kuo Online
Old School Kung Fu Fest: Joseph Kuo Online
As part of Old School Kung Fu Fest, the Museum is hosting four newly restored films by Taiwanese independent director Joseph Kuo in its Virtual Cinema.
A Hero
A Hero
The latest film from Asghar Farhadi is the story of a man in jail for a debt he can’t repay. When a plan to erase his debt goes awry, he gains unexpected and unwelcome notoriety.
36 Deadly Styles
36 Deadly Styles
36 Deadly Styles features some of the longest, most intense, ground-level acrobatic fight scenes ever put on film.
Holiday Puppetry Fun: Silly Willy Meet-and-Greet
Holiday Puppetry Fun: Silly Willy Meet-and-Greet
Silly Willy conducts improvised on-screen interviews with visitors who either bring their own puppets or participate with a MoMI puppet.
A Family Affair: The Hubleys’ Animated Shorts
A Family Affair: The Hubleys’ Animated Shorts
MoMI is pleased to present an all-ages program of eight animated shorts by married couple Faith and John Hubley.
18 Bronzemen
18 Bronzemen
Carter Huang plays the son of heroic Ming rebels, spirited away from a Qing-led massacre of his family and hidden in Shaolin Temple, where he spends 20 years learning Shaolin kung fu.
Bram Stoker’s Dracula
Bram Stoker’s Dracula
Coppola's box-office smash, a quirky, idiosyncratic, and over-the-top cascade of lush and violent horror imagery, is best on the big screen.
Return of 18 Bronzemen
Return of 18 Bronzemen
This sequel takes us to the dark side, with Carter Huang as an evil Qing prince who stages a coup, murders his dad, and poisons his brother.
7 Grandmasters
7 Grandmasters
7 Grandmasters is a nonstop series of freaky fight scenes, with martial artists kicking up dirt and dishing out hurt.
Fantasia
Fantasia
This musical drama captures the sometimes seedy atmosphere of the 1990s Greek club scene as it follows a talented young singer’s rise to stardom.
Mystery of Chess Boxing
Mystery of Chess Boxing
Kuo delivers an intense, acrobatic style that makes it easy to understand why this movie played for almost ten years in Times Square.