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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.
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.
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.
LAIKA: Life in Stop Motion
LAIKA: Life in Stop Motion
This new exhibition invites visitors of all ages to appreciate the painstaking work of stop-motion animation, with eight animation stations equipped with 2-D LAIKA character figures and environments that visitors can use to experiment with and create their own short films.
Sam and Friends
Sam and Friends
This program presents four of the fifteen surviving episodes of Sam and Friends, a five-minute, live television show created by Jim Henson and Jane Nebel (later Jane Henson) that aired daily on Washington, D.C.–based WRC-TV from 1955 to 1961.
Triangle of Sadness
Triangle of Sadness
Cinematic mischief maker Ruben Östlund liberally applies his customary playfulness to the wide canvas of his wildly ambitious, frequently hilarious latest film, which won the Swedish director his second Palme d’Or at this year’s Cannes Film Festival. Screens October 3.
Stars at Noon
Stars at Noon
On October 4, Claire Denis appears in person with her Cannes-awarded latest film, a contemporary thriller suffused with political intrigue and languid eroticism, moving entirely to the tactile rhythms of its actors.
TÁR
TÁR
From writer-producer-director Todd Field comes a searing examination of power and its impact and durability in today’s society. Followed by Q&A with Cate Blanchett and Todd Field, moderated by Laurie Anderson.
Magnetic Fields (Magnitika Pedia)
Magnetic Fields (Magnitika Pedia)
Shot guerrilla-style over nine days with a mostly improvised script and a low budget, this quirky film speaks to the heart in an extraordinary way. Winner of five 2022 Hellenic Film Academy Awards.
The Lifebelt (To Sosivio)
The Lifebelt (To Sosivio)
A failed Athenian businessman, deep in financial and moral collapse, turns to food banks in order to survive. There, he meets a homeless man who throws him the "lifebelt" he needs to get himself out of his predicament and rediscover the values he once had. Screens October 8.
Pack of Sheep (Ageli Provaton)
Pack of Sheep (Ageli Provaton)
The balance of power between prey and predators begins to shift in this inquiry into toxic masculinity that won the 2022 Hellenic Film Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. Screens October 8.
The Fortune Teller (I Kafetzou)
The Fortune Teller (I Kafetzou)
This timeless classic, considered one of the best comedies made by the Greek production company Finos Film, shines as brightly today as it did 56 years ago. The film will be shown in a new digital print. Screens October 9.