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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.
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.
MoMI Online Trivia Night
MoMI Online Trivia Night
On April 27, join MoMI and Movie Trivia NYC online for an evening of cinematic fun, featuring a guest round from Patrick Cotnoir of The George Lucas Talk Show.
Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du commerce, 1080 Bruxelles
Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du commerce, 1080 Bruxelles
Undoubtedly one of the greatest films ever made, Chantal Akerman’s singular avant-garde epic screens April 29 and May 8.
Stories We Tell
Stories We Tell
In this genre-bending, deeply personal documentary, Oscar-nominated writer-director Sarah Polley discovers that the truth depends on who is telling it, uncovering a web of secrets kept by her family.
Tampopo with Toby Talbot
Tampopo with Toby Talbot
On April 30, one of the most original and delightful comedies of the eighties, with Toby Talbot in conversation with Michael Barker—plus a book signing!
Les Rendez-vous d’Anna
Les Rendez-vous d’Anna
In one of Akerman’s greatest films, a celebrated Belgian filmmaker tours cities in West Germany, Belgium, and France with her work, and passes through anonymous, depopulated spaces like a ghost.
Dick Tracy
Dick Tracy
Warren Beatty’s big-budget, color-drenched adaptation of Chester Gould’s classic mid-century comic strip is a visual delight from start to finish, featuring lovingly detailed noir photography by Vittorio Storaro.
Letters Home
Letters Home
Adapting Rose Leiman Goldemberg’s off-Broadway play based on Sylvia Plath’s letters to her mother Aurelia, Akerman delivers a spare reflection on the inextricable ties binding mother and daughter.
The Last of Sheila
The Last of Sheila
Sondheim’s only foray into screenwriting is this delightful, complexly woven comic-tinged mystery, co-written with his friend Anthony Perkins.
The Wrong Man + “Queens on Screens” with Cosmo Bjorkenheim
The Wrong Man + “Queens on Screens” with Cosmo Bjorkenheim
On April 30, see Alfred Hitchcock's stark 1956 masterpiece starring Henry Fonda and Vera Miles alongside Cosmo Bjorkenheim's cinematic tour of Queens.
No Home Movie
No Home Movie
Built around a series of conversations in person and online between the filmmaker and her mother, a Belgian Holocaust survivor, No Home Movie is both diaristic and avant-garde, a meditation on family relations, memory, and death in the modern world.
Smyrna, My Beloved
Smyrna, My Beloved
This moving historical saga follows a prominent Greek family forced to endure the burning of the vibrant cosmopolitan city of Smyrna in 1922 by the Turks and the killing of its Greek and Armenian populations.