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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.
Elvis with Baz Luhrmann in Person
Elvis with Baz Luhrmann in Person
On November 29 at 7 p.m., join us for a very special free screening of Elvis with director Baz Luhrmann in person!
2022 Moving Image Awards
2022 Moving Image Awards
On December 1, join us for the Museum's annual winter fundraising event, honoring directors Sarah Polley and Laura Poitras, novelist and screenwriter Kazuo Ishiguro, and composer Michael Abels.
The Balcony Movie
The Balcony Movie
Filmed before the pandemic, Pawel Lozinski’s revelatory documentary was shot entirely from his balcony in Warsaw. Director in person—December 2!
Birthplace + Sisters
Birthplace + Sisters
Lozinski’s first major work, following Henryk Greenberg, a Polish-born American who lost much of his family in the Holocaust, plus a celebrated, delicate short study of familial love.
The Way It Is + The Ukrainian Cleaning Lady
The Way It Is + The Ukrainian Cleaning Lady
In and around his own apartment in Warsaw, Łoziński explores a year in the lives of his neighbors; plus an intimate portrait of the filmmaker’s own cleaning lady, a single mother who left her native Ukraine seeking a better life.
How It’s Done
How It’s Done
A political media advisor puts out a call for neophyte applicants for political candidacy, and hundreds apply in this dynamic, entertaining, and implicitly damning snapshot of opportunistic populism in action.
Chemo
Chemo
Lozinski captures patients in an oncology clinic where they receive chemotherapy. The context and location engender profound reflections and wide-ranging conversation, each frame teeming with life, light, and humor.
Father and Son
Father and Son
On 12/4, Paweł Łoziński introduces the touching film he made with his father, Marcel, documenting a road trip from Warsaw to Paris.
You Have No Idea How Much I Love You
You Have No Idea How Much I Love You
Lozinski’s unwaveringly intimate work documents a triangular psychotherapeutic encounter between a daughter, a mother, and a therapist.
.dog
.dog
A teenager on the verge of manhood idolizes his imprisoned father even though he barely remembers him. When the father is released after serving ten years, the boy anticipates finally getting to know him and making up for lost time.
Sirens
Sirens
On the outskirts of Beirut, Lilas and her bandmates Shery, Maya, Alma, and Tatyana have big dreams but few opportunities. Shot and directed by L.A.-based filmmaker Rita Baghdadi, Sirens received its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival