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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.
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.
Tales in the Holoverse
Tales in the Holoverse
The Museum is collaborating with creative technology studio Scatter on this project, which reimagines oral storytelling as a virtual, 3D experience and presents new possibilities for the future of the moving image.
Living with The Walking Dead
Living with The Walking Dead
This major new exhibition addresses the origins, production, fandom, and impact of The Walking Dead, one of the most watched shows in the history of cable television. Presented with support from AMC Networks.
The Muppet Musicians of Bremen + Classic Henson Fairy Tales
The Muppet Musicians of Bremen + Classic Henson Fairy Tales
Craig Shemin and puppet designer and builder Bonnie Erickson, will introduce this rarely seen 1972 gem and clip show on July 2 and 8.
Dawn of the Dead (2004)
Dawn of the Dead (2004)
Before Synder moved over to big-budget comic book blockbusters, he made his mark in the horror genre with this ambitious remake of Romero’s 1970s zombie classic.
Mayor
Mayor
One of the most insightful and entertaining documentaries of recent years, this political saga follows Musa Hadid, the Christian mayor of Ramallah, Palestine. On December 3, with director David Osit in person!
Strictly Ballroom
Strictly Ballroom
One of the most successful Australian films of all time, Baz Lurhmann's Strictly Ballroom plays July 15 as part of our Musical Matinees series.
Shaun of the Dead
Shaun of the Dead
Hilarious, endlessly quotable, gloriously gory, and endearingly sweet, Shaun of the Dead is a zombie film like no other—the world’s first “rom-zom-com.”
Puppetry for Parents and Professionals
Puppetry for Parents and Professionals
Puppetry can be used as an effective tool for interaction, pretend play, communication, motivation, de-escalation, and more.
Night of the Living Dead
Night of the Living Dead
George A. Romero’s seminal, independent zombie movie, which laid the groundwork for the indie horror film, as part of our series Films of the Dead: Romero & Co.—next screening on July 9.
Crimes of the Future
Crimes of the Future
The latest film from David Cronenberg is a return to the speculative body horror of the Canadian auteur’s early career, showing July 1–9.
The Dead Don’t Die
The Dead Don’t Die
Jim Jarmusch’s Trump-era allegory imagines a placid upstate New York community overrun by zombies who have been reanimated by the addictive consumerism they practiced in life.
The Dead Don’t Die
The Dead Don’t Die
Jim Jarmusch’s Trump-era allegory imagines a placid upstate New York community overrun by zombies who have been reanimated by the addictive consumerism they practiced in life.
Strictly Ballroom
Strictly Ballroom
One of the most successful Australian films of all time, Baz Lurhmann's Strictly Ballroom plays July 15 as part of our Musical Matinees series.
One Cut of the Dead
One Cut of the Dead
An independent film crew making a low-budget zombie film encounters real-life zombies in Shinichiro Ueda's fresh and funny comic horror meta-movie—screening July 2 and 10.
Defunct (Apostratos)
Defunct (Apostratos)
In this moving, comic-tinged drama, Aris, a failed young businessman, leaves his yuppie downtown lifestyle behind and moves into his late grandfather's house in a quiet, ultra-conservative Athens suburb of Army retirees.
Holgut
Holgut
Award-winning filmmaker Liesbeth De Ceulaer’s film explores the mythical wildlife that live, lived, and may one day live again in the Siberian tundra.