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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.
- No events scheduled for Aug 1, 2022.
- No events scheduled for Aug 3, 2022.
Week of Events
Professional Development: Filmmaking Basics—Documentary
Professional Development: Filmmaking Basics—Documentary
Create your own documentary short and bring filmmaking to your class, applicable for any grade, any subject.
Jim Henson Exhibition Guided Tours
Jim Henson Exhibition Guided Tours
Join us for a special guided tour of The Jim Henson Exhibition! The tour costs $5.00 per visitor (on top of admission ticket).
For Love or Money: A History of Women and Work in Australia
For Love or Money: A History of Women and Work in Australia
This feminist essay classic was five years in the making, with contributions from hundreds of women and over 200 Australian films. It is an investigation and celebration of women's work from colonial settlement to the present, a story told by women: Aboriginals, migrants, convicts, and a variety of others.
Brainstorm
Brainstorm
Douglas Trumbull’s science-fiction thriller about a device that can record thoughts and dreams features stunning visual effects to portray telepathic experiences, cutting between widescreen and standard size.
Proof
Proof
Hugo Weaving plays Martin, a blind photographer whose distrust of everyone is rooted in a childhood incident. He takes photos as proof that the world he imagines is the same world that sighted people see.
In This Life’s Body
In This Life’s Body
Corinne Cantrill, who works with her husband Arthur Cantrill, is one of Australia’s most committed and prolific experimental filmmakers. This brilliantly constructed and questioning autobiography covers the years 1928–1984, using a tapestry of photographs and a handful of moving image clips, centering the emotions and memories they elicit.
Silent Running
Silent Running
Visual effects wizard Douglas Trumbull showcases his frequently breathtaking model work in this science-fiction cult classic.
Professional Development: Game Design Basics
Professional Development: Game Design Basics
Make a game for any subject and supercharge engagement by using game design basics with your students.
Brainstorm
Brainstorm
Douglas Trumbull’s science-fiction thriller about a device that can record thoughts and dreams features stunning visual effects to portray telepathic experiences, cutting between widescreen and standard size.
Only the Brave + Greetings from Wollongong
Only the Brave + Greetings from Wollongong
Two films of working class families in the '80s and '90s, each presented in 16mm.
Silent Running
Silent Running
Visual effects wizard Douglas Trumbull showcases his frequently breathtaking model work in this science-fiction cult classic.
My Brilliant Career
My Brilliant Career
Based on Miles Franklin’s celebrated feminist book of the same name, this Australian New Wave classic launched the careers of actors Judy Davis and Sam Neill, as well as director Gillian Armstrong.
Proof
Proof
Hugo Weaving plays Martin, a blind photographer whose distrust of everyone is rooted in a childhood incident. He takes photos as proof that the world he imagines is the same world that sighted people see.
Brainstorm
Brainstorm
Douglas Trumbull’s science-fiction thriller about a device that can record thoughts and dreams features stunning visual effects to portray telepathic experiences, cutting between widescreen and standard size.
Broken Highway
Broken Highway
Laurie McInnes here makes her feature directorial debut with this haunting, dusty Australian gothic noir, shot in rich black-and-white.