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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.
Adapting Stories for the Screen: Sarah Polley’s Women Talking
Adapting Stories for the Screen: Sarah Polley’s Women Talking
The material on view in this new exhibition provides a glimpse into the process of bringing the story of Sarah Polley’s film Women Talking to the screen.
Free Preview Screening: Living
Free Preview Screening: Living
From a script by Kazuo Ishiguro, Living is a reimagining of Akira Kurosawa’s 1952 classic Ikiru, starring Bill Nighy. Join us for a free sneak preview screening on December 13!
A Short Film About Killing
A Short Film About Killing
Polish master Krzysztof Kieslowski chose two scripts from his epic 10-part, 10-hour, 10 Commandments–inspired series Dekalog to expand into features, the first of which was based on episode 6, aka “Though Shall Not Commit Murder.” December 16.
Program One: Future Shock
Program One: Future Shock
Total Running Time: 93 mins. Nice Shoes Dir. Jonathan Lawrence, 2019, 4 mins. Catch the ’40s sci-fi classic movie references featured in this epic music video. Megaville After Hours Dir. Tim Cürlis, Christian Skibinski, 2022, ...
A Short Film About Love
A Short Film About Love
Polish master Krzysztof Kieslowski chose two scripts from his epic 10-part, 10-hour, 10 Commandments–inspired series Dekalog to expand into features, the second of which was based on episode 7, aka “Though Shalt Not Commit Adultery.” December 16.
Program Two: A Separate Reality
Program Two: A Separate Reality
Total Running Time: 90 mins. Chaska (Trailer) Dir. Liz Guarracino, 2022, 2 mins. How would you feel if you found out the U.S. government created ancestry.com to catch a single being? Last Orders (Trailer) Dir. ...
The Muppet Christmas Carol: 30th Anniversary Screening
The Muppet Christmas Carol: 30th Anniversary Screening
MoMI presents the beloved adaptation of Dickens's novel, celebrating thirty years of enchanting movie-lovers of all ages.
Program Three: Best of International Sci-Fi Shorts
Program Three: Best of International Sci-Fi Shorts
Total Running Time: 102 mins. Belonging–Night Dir. Cory Williams, Jacqueline Cooper, 2022, 5 mins. In this dreamily reimagined excerpt from Eugene O’Neill’s Long Day’s Journey into Night (1956), a poetic sailor is at peace in ...
Program Four: Nowhere to Hide—Best of Sci-Fi Supernatural Shorts
Program Four: Nowhere to Hide—Best of Sci-Fi Supernatural Shorts
Total Running Time: 89 mins. Memento Mori (Trailer) Dir. Izzy Lee, 2022, 2 mins. In 1983, a scientist in isolation resurrects a dead colleague. The Fortune Teller Dir. Brian Abraham, 2022, 4 mins. Virtual Reality ...
Rise of the Guardians
Rise of the Guardians
Screening 12/31, Rise of the Guardians is a holiday-themed animated adventure tale starring the Immortal Guardians of William Joyce's beloved book series
Program Five: Journey to the Far Side of Your Mind
Program Five: Journey to the Far Side of Your Mind
Total Running Time: 74 mins. Chimera Dir. Andrew Lee Ryan, 2022, 25 mins. In a small town in the not-too-distant future, a VR life simulation junkie goes on a mission in reality to get a ...
The Silence of the Mole (El Silencio del topo)
The Silence of the Mole (El Silencio del topo)
Anaïs Taracena's debut feature unspools as a political thriller that tells the story of Elías Barahona, a journalist who, during the 1970s, infiltrated the most repressive government in the history of Guatemala.
Impuratus
Impuratus
In this world premiere feature from director Michael Yurinko and starring Tom Sizemore, a police detective is summoned to a remote mental hospital to witness a deathbed confession from a mysterious Civil War soldier.