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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.
French Cancan
French Cancan
The greatest of Jean Renoir's 1950s Technicolor period pieces, a riot of color and movement set in 19th-century Paris starring the legendary Jean Gabin.
The Tales of Hoffmann
The Tales of Hoffmann
A dazzling 4K restoration of Powell and Pressburger's 1951 glorious adaptation of Offenbach’s 1881 fantasy opera.
Siege on Liperti Street
Siege on Liperti Street
Winner of five awards at the 2019 Thessaloniki International Film Festival, including the FIPRESCI prize and People’s Choice Award.
Plaza Catedral
Plaza Catedral
Shortlisted for the Oscars in the International Feature category, the second fiction film by Panamanian director Abner Benaim questions how far each of us would go to help a stranger.