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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.
Twitch, Pop, Bloom: Science in Action
Twitch, Pop, Bloom: Science in Action
This video exhibition presents films produced for scientific education and entertainment between 1904 and 1936, an era when cinema was still a novel tool for manipulating time and scale to show what was imperceptible to the naked eye.
Memoria
Memoria
Apichatpong Weerasethakul's serene masterpiece set in Colombia and starring Tilda Swinton begs for the big-screen treatment. Playing at MoMI May 20–22!
The Prisoner of Zenda
The Prisoner of Zenda
On May 20 and 21, see David O. Selznick's production of Anthony Hope's popular late 19th-century novel—one of James Wong Howe’s proudest achievements.
Artist Talk with Ari Melenciano + Reception for The Situation Room
Artist Talk with Ari Melenciano + Reception for The Situation Room
On Friday, May 20, artist Ari Melenciano will join us for a discussion about her installation, currently on view at MoMI.
The Wiz
The Wiz
Join us on May 21 for the beloved New York City musical, introduced by Ms. Renee Brailsford, one of the original dancers in the film.
The Wiz Family Day
The Wiz Family Day
On May 21, join us for a family day packed with fun and educational experiences for children of all ages related to the classic 1978 movie musical The Wiz.
After Tomorrow
After Tomorrow
One of six collaborations between director Frank Borzage and ace screenwriter Sonya Levien, After Tomorrow united them with James Wong Howe, whose photography brings a sense of moody, stylized drama to this pre-Code, depression-addled love story.
Birds of America
Birds of America
An atmospheric essay film, Birds of America retraces the steps of famed French ornithologist John James Audubon as he traveled along the Mississippi memorializing with his dramatic paintings a remarkable range of birds, many of which are now extinct.
Annihilation
Annihilation
Inspired by the best-selling Southern Reach Trilogy, Alex Garland’s sci-fi thriller envisions a haunting and beautiful landscape where DNA and biological processes do not abide known rules. Screens May 22.