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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.
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.
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.
Thriller Dance Day!
Thriller Dance Day!
On October 27, dancer-performer Renée Brailsford (The Wiz) will lead a group of dancers through the choreography of “Thriller” as part of a fun day of festive family programming that also includes a Museum tour and face painting!
Mija
Mija
Director Isabel Castro’s intimate debut feature constructs an ethereal vision and dedication to the daughters that fight for their families, their dreams and themselves.
Nosferatu
Nosferatu
In celebration of its 100th anniversary, we're thrilled to present F. W. Murnau's groundbreaking classic that all but invented the horror film for the modern era. Screens October 28–30 (on 35mm with live piano accompaniment by on 10/30).
The Masque of the Red Death & The Tomb of Ligeia
The Masque of the Red Death & The Tomb of Ligeia
Heavy on atmosphere, this double feature highlights the end of Roger Corman's Poe Cycle with two from 1964. Screens on Oct 28.
Das Boot: The Director’s Cut
Das Boot: The Director’s Cut
This epic World War II film, at the time the most expensive production ever mounted in Germany, remains a spectacular achievement thanks to cinematographer Jost Vacano’s groundbreaking technical innovations. October 29–30.
Nosferatu
Nosferatu
In celebration of its 100th anniversary, we're thrilled to present F. W. Murnau's groundbreaking classic that all but invented the horror film for the modern era. Screens October 28–30 (on 35mm with live piano accompaniment by on 10/30).
House of Usher & The Pit and the Pendulum
House of Usher & The Pit and the Pendulum
Curses and spirits abound in this frightening double feature from Roger Corman which highlights two of Edgar Allen Poe's haunted castle stories. Screens October 29.
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.
Nosferatu
Nosferatu
In celebration of its 100th anniversary, we're thrilled to present F. W. Murnau's groundbreaking classic that all but invented the horror film for the modern era. Screens October 28–30 (on 35mm with live piano accompaniment by on 10/30).
Tales of Terror & The Haunted Palace
Tales of Terror & The Haunted Palace
This eerie anthology pairing features a star studded ensemble across two of Roger Corman's most darkly funny and frightening films. Screens October 30.
Das Boot: The Director’s Cut
Das Boot: The Director’s Cut
This epic World War II film, at the time the most expensive production ever mounted in Germany, remains a spectacular achievement thanks to cinematographer Jost Vacano’s groundbreaking technical innovations. October 29–30.
An Act of Worship
An Act of Worship
On October 30, Nausheen Dadabhoy presents a film that holds a mirror to her experience as a Muslim American coming of age at the turn of the 21st century. This screening kicks off our new series Infinite Beauty: Muslim and MENASHA Identity Onscreen.