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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.
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.
Dan Perri and the Art of the Title Sequence
Dan Perri and the Art of the Title Sequence
This exhibit explores the art of the title sequence by focusing on designs by one of its most acclaimed practitioners, Dan Perri. His work in the industry spans 50 years, from the early 1970s through the 2010s.
As Mine Exactly
As Mine Exactly
A mother and son revisit the medical emergency that reshaped their lives and the remarkable fragments that remain of that time in this intimate blend of VR and performance film. Experience As Mine Exactly October 19–23.
Fall Moving Image Workshop for Parents
Fall Moving Image Workshop for Parents
In this free class, parents will explore fun, therapeutic activities using moving image technologies, learning new media and games that are easily teachable to kids.
A Happy Henson Halloween
A Happy Henson Halloween
Enjoy a selection of classic monsters, music, and Muppets, including episodes of The Muppet Show featuring Vincent Price and Alice Cooper and other haunting classic clips from Jim Henson’s work.
Once Upon a Time in America: Extended Director’s Cut
Once Upon a Time in America: Extended Director’s Cut
Sergio Leone’s ten-years-in-the-making opus does for the gangster film what his visionary spaghetti westerns did for the horse opera, brilliantly reimagining the genre as a vehicle for limitless stylistic expression.
The Afterlight
Little Shop of Horrors: The Director’s Cut
Little Shop of Horrors: The Director’s Cut
Frank Oz’s first non-Muppet film is one of the great musicals of the 1980s. See the rarely screened original director's cut, with Oz's intended dark ending.
Up the Lazy River & Claw
Up the Lazy River & Claw
Two works by Manfred Kirchheimer—one from the '60s, and one from last year—both grappling with the ever changing urban landscapes. Screens October 22.
Once Upon a Time in America: Extended Director’s Cut
Once Upon a Time in America: Extended Director’s Cut
Sergio Leone’s ten-years-in-the-making opus does for the gangster film what his visionary spaghetti westerns did for the horse opera, brilliantly reimagining the genre as a vehicle for limitless stylistic expression.
One More Time & Stations of the Elevated
One More Time & Stations of the Elevated
Manfred Kirchheimer's masterpiece is paired with a coda to his urban suite started in 2018. Screens October 22.
MoMI Members Halloween Party
MoMI Members Halloween Party
With spooky season in full swing, join MoMI for a free members-only Halloween event on October 22 featuring a dance party, food, drink, costume contest, trivia, and more.
Little Shop of Horrors: The Director’s Cut
Little Shop of Horrors: The Director’s Cut
Frank Oz’s first non-Muppet film is one of the great musicals of the 1980s. See the rarely screened original director's cut, with Oz's intended dark ending.
Dream of a City & Free Time
Dream of a City & Free Time
The start and continuation of Manfred Kirchheimer's city suite, these two films draw upon the wealth of material he shot in the late fifties.
Let It Be Law
Let It Be Law
Let It Be Law documents the determination of women fighting bravely to secure the right to physical self-determination, and bears witness to their massive mobilization in the streets of Buenos Aires. Screens October 23.
Earth II
Earth II
A thrilling supercut that draws from the past four decades of blockbusters in which civilization and the world itself are collapsing, disaffected villains scheme for their own survival, Keanu Reeves leads the resistance, and Matt Damon becomes a Martian.
Short Circuit
Short Circuit
In Manfred Kirchheimer’s most formally audacious and confessional work, a documentary filmmaker ponders his increasingly alienated condition, and begins to interrogate the show of solidarity he extends to his newly arrived neighbors. Screens October 23.