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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.
Deepfake: Unstable Evidence on Screen
Deepfake: Unstable Evidence on Screen
“Deepfakes” are videos that intentionally distort or fabricate actual events. This temporary exhibition presents a variety of media that demonstrate the instability of on-screen truths.
What Do We See When We Look at the Sky?
What Do We See When We Look at the Sky?
Koberidze’s wholly original and thoroughly enchanting work of cinema mixes romance with wry humor, naturalism with magical realism.
Holiday Puppetry Fun: Silly Willy Demo with Q&A
Holiday Puppetry Fun: Silly Willy Demo with Q&A
Silly Willy will be available for "guest appearances" in visitors' posts about MoMI or its exhibits.
Preparations to Be Together for an Unknown Period of Time
Preparations to Be Together for an Unknown Period of Time
Horvát’s captivating second feature is a mysterious, cerebral romance.
Bergman Island
Bergman Island
Beautiful and complexly etched, Bergman Island is a film about a woman who wrests both romantic and creative control back into her life.
Music Video Jam with Puppets
Benedetta
Benedetta
A 17th-century nun becomes entangled in a forbidden lesbian affair with a novice, but it is Benedetta's shocking religious visions that threaten to shake the Church to its core.
The Underground Railroad: The Complete Series (Chapters 1–5)
The Underground Railroad: The Complete Series (Chapters 1–5)
Academy Award–winning director Barry Jenkins’s mammoth adaptation of the Pulitzer Prize–winning novel by Colson Whitehead is an extraordinary work of American visual art.
The Underground Railroad: The Complete Series (Chapters 6–10)
The Underground Railroad: The Complete Series (Chapters 6–10)
Academy Award–winning director Barry Jenkins’s mammoth adaptation of the Pulitzer Prize–winning novel by Colson Whitehead is an extraordinary work of American visual art.
Holiday Puppetry Fun: Recreating Classic Puppet Scenes
Holiday Puppetry Fun: Recreating Classic Puppet Scenes
Brian Carson will demonstrate the re-creation of classic scenes from Sesame Street and The Muppet Show.
The Souvenir Part II
The Souvenir Part II
Joanna Hogg continues her extraordinary diptych about creativity, loss, and coming into one’s own as a person of the world.