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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.
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.
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.
Our Ark
Our Ark
Exploring the technological advances that have made backing up our world possible—from trees to turtles to tangerines—Our Ark probes the urge to preserve as well as what cannot be captured.
Marvels of Media Exhibition
Marvels of Media Exhibition
The Marvels of Media Awards is the very first media awards ceremony, festival, and exhibition to celebrate media-makers on the autism spectrum. This selection of media and related objects reveals a diverse artistry.
Marvels of Media Films
Marvels of Media Films
A selection of short films and excerpts from feature films that won awards at the inaugural Marvels of Media Awards
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
Tim Burton proved he was a fitting choice to finally direct the long-anticipated screen adaptation of Sondheim’s masterpiece, the musical that shocked Broadway audiences in 1977. Screening April 23 & 24.
Democrats
Democrats
Filmed over three years, Democrats is a steadfast chronicle of the drafting of Zimbabwe’s first democratic constitution.
Into the Woods
Into the Woods
Sondheim and writer James Lapine’s brilliant fractured fairy tale is given the grand-scale Disney treatment, yet miraculously without sacrificing its sophistication, cleverness, or melancholy.
President
President
More than six years after the premiere of her widely acclaimed Democrats, Camilla Nielsson returns to Zimbabwe, which is at the crossroads of a fair election.