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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.
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.
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.
The New World (Limited Release Version)
The New World (Limited Release Version)
Terence Malick's brilliant reimagining of the story of John Smith and Pocahontas as a transcendental reverie screens November 25–26.
The Shiranui Sea
The Shiranui Sea
On November 26, scholar Aaron Gerow will introduce the film, widely regarded as Tsuchimoto’s supreme masterpiece.
Emmet Otter’s Jug-Band Christmas: 45th Anniversary Screening
Emmet Otter’s Jug-Band Christmas: 45th Anniversary Screening
On November 26 and December 3, Jim Henson Legacy President Craig Shemin will appear in person with special outtakes and excerpts.
The New World (Limited Release Version)
The New World (Limited Release Version)
Terence Malick's brilliant reimagining of the story of John Smith and Pocahontas as a transcendental reverie screens November 25–26.
The Act of Killing (Director’s Cut)
The Act of Killing (Director’s Cut)
In this landmark, deeply unsettling film, director Joshua Oppenheimer exposes a contemporary Indonesian society formed from a brutal, harrowing, and still unexamined civil war. November 26 & December 17.
Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead
Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead
Lloyd Kaufman will appear in person on November 26 to introduce his underrated underground gem, a perfect blend of trademark Troma madness and Kaufman’s cynical, crude black humor.
Ishtar (Director’s Cut)
Ishtar (Director’s Cut)
Wildly underrated at the time of its release, Elaine May’s deceptively screwball comedy is a cross between a Hope and Crosby road movie and a trenchant satire about the Middle East that feels as relevant as it ever was. November 27 & December 4.
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.
Brazil
Brazil
Terry Gilliam’s jaw-dropping dystopian science-fiction black comedy imagines a totalitarian surveillance society that would make Orwell envious. November 27 & December 4.
I Didn’t See You There
I Didn’t See You There
Filmmaker Reid Davenport appears in person November 27 to present his groundbreaking, Sundance-awarded work of nonfiction, which offers a uniquely transporting cinematic experience.
What We Leave Behind
What We Leave Behind
Iliana Sosa’s film is a marvel of presence, filled with gorgeously attentive images and casually revelatory moments born of patience and loving complicity. With director in person.