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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.
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.
Land of the Dead
Land of the Dead
Romero's fourth entry in his Dead cycle is a biting social satire about class warfare. On July 17, with intro by Brett Arnold, followed by a live taping of The New Flesh podcast.
Entre Nos + Swerve
Entre Nos + Swerve
Paola Mendoza and Gloria La Morte's award-winning family drama paired with Lynne Sachs' recent Queens-set short film.
FORMA: A Night of House Music
FORMA: A Night of House Music
On July 15, come to the Museum for a very special evening devoted to exploring house music, featuring a panel discussion, dance party, and multiscreen video art presentations.
Happy Feet
Happy Feet
Directed by George Miller (Babe, Mad Max: Fury Road) and choreographed by Tony-winner Savion Glover, Happy Feet is a delightful, funny musical adventure that also carries an environmental message.
Night of the Living Dead (1990)
Night of the Living Dead (1990)
This remake of George A. Romero’s enduring 1968 masterpiece is a cult classic in its own right thanks to director and makeup legend Tom Savini’s thoughtful approach to the original source material.
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.
Entre Nos + Swerve
Entre Nos + Swerve
Paola Mendoza and Gloria La Morte's award-winning family drama paired with Lynne Sachs' recent Queens-set short film.
Day of the Dead
Day of the Dead
Marks the reunion of Romero and special effects legend Tom Savini, and together they deliver a picture that pushes the envelope on every level, from body-munching gore to biting social critique.
Eduardo and Mônica (Eduardo e Mônica)
Eduardo and Mônica (Eduardo e Mônica)
On July 17, René Sampaio’s timeless and irresistible romantic comedy set in Brasilia in the mid-1980s. Part of the series Las Premieres.
Land of the Dead
Land of the Dead
Romero's fourth entry in his Dead cycle is a biting social satire about class warfare. On July 17, with intro by Brett Arnold, followed by a live taping of The New Flesh podcast.