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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.
Adapting Stories for the Screen: Chinonye Chukwu’s Till
Adapting Stories for the Screen: Chinonye Chukwu’s Till
This new temporary exhibition explores the process of creating the story depicted in Chinonye Chukwu’s acclaimed 2022 feature Till, through storyboards created by Jesse Michael Owen.
Good Night Oppy
Good Night Oppy
Featuring photo-real special visual effects and animation by Industrial Light & Magic and the voice of Angela Bassett, Good Night Oppy charts Oppy’s unforgettable journey and an indescribable bond that formed as the rover searched for life on Mars.
ParaNorman
ParaNorman
ParaNorman was LAIKA Studios’ second feature after Coraline and combines a handmade stop-motion texture with groundbreaking technical innovation. Screens November 11–20.
Minamata: The Victims and Their World
Minamata: The Victims and Their World
Noriaki Tsuchimoto's film, screening November 18 and 27, is a monumental achievement in documentary history.
Donnie Darko: The Director’s Cut
Donnie Darko: The Director’s Cut
Richard Kelly’s horror-tinged drama about a suburban kid (Jake Gyllenhaal) plagued by apocalyptic visions is one of the true cult classics of the 21st century. November 18–19.
Home for the Holidays
Home for the Holidays
On November 19 and 25, join us for Jodie Foster's rollicking yet immensely moving comic drama, one of the most perceptive of all American films about the often unbearable dynamics of family.
Umitori: Robbing the Sea at Shimokita Peninsula
Umitori: Robbing the Sea at Shimokita Peninsula
A rich encapsulation of Tsuchimoto’s work: clear-headed in its staredown of corporations and government, transcendent in its lighthearted openness to people.
Donnie Darko: The Director’s Cut
Donnie Darko: The Director’s Cut
Richard Kelly’s horror-tinged drama about a suburban kid (Jake Gyllenhaal) plagued by apocalyptic visions is one of the true cult classics of the 21st century. November 18–19.
Minamata Revolt: A People’s Quest for Life
Minamata Revolt: A People’s Quest for Life
he second and most rarely screened entry in Tsuchimoto’s Minamata Trilogy remains a gripping indictment of modern industry and a testament to human resilience.
ParaNorman
ParaNorman
ParaNorman was LAIKA Studios’ second feature after Coraline and combines a handmade stop-motion texture with groundbreaking technical innovation. Screens November 11–20.
My Town, My Youth
My Town, My Youth
A soul-stirring reflection on art’s relation to what Susan Sontag called “the kingdom of the sick.”
Afghan Spring
Afghan Spring
Tsuchimoto’s last major feature reaffirms his undying allegiance to the global struggles of humanity.
The Northman
The Northman
On November 20, join us for Robert Eggers's fierce adaptation of the Norse legend that inspired Shakespeare’s Hamlet featuring an intro and book signing by Simon Abrams, author of The Northman: A Call to the Gods, and a prerecorded intro by Robert Eggers.
The Minamata Mural
The Minamata Mural
A rich depiction of art-making and a mature meditation on the limits of art, featuring a wrenching strings-and-shakuhachi score from Toru Takemitsu.
Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors
Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors
The great Armenian filmmaker Parajanov had been laboring in obscurity for a decade or more by the time he made his breakout film, a visionary folk romance.