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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
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.
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.
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.
Cinema of Sensations: The Never-Ending Screen of Val del Omar
Cinema of Sensations: The Never-Ending Screen of Val del Omar
This major exhibition brings the immersive, multisensory cinematic installations of visionary Spanish artist, filmmaker, and inventor José Val del Omar (1904–1982) to U.S. audiences for the first time, along with commissioned pieces by contemporary artists Sally Golding, Matt Spendlove, and Tim Cowlishaw; Duo Prismáticas; Esperanza Collado; and Colectivo Los Ingrávidos.
Members-only Oscars Trivia
Members-only Oscars Trivia
Join Movie Trivia NYC at MoMI for an evening of Oscars trivia, featuring a guest round from MoMI Editorial Director Michael Koresky.
Singin’ in the Rain
Singin’ in the Rain
On the Saturday, March 11 screening of Donen and Kelly’s satirical look at Hollywood on the cusp of the sound era, film critic and author Charles Bramesco will introduce the film and sign copies of his new book, Colors of Film: The Story of Cinema in 50 Palettes.
A New Old Play
A New Old Play
On February 4 and 5, see encore screenings of Qiu Jiongjiong's hand-crafted masterwork, an homage to classical Chinese opera.
Inland Empire
Inland Empire
On Friday, 3/10, see David Lynch's most surreal and formally audacious feature film since Eraserhead, starring a brilliant Laura Dern.
Singin’ in the Rain
Singin’ in the Rain
On the Saturday, March 11 screening of Donen and Kelly’s satirical look at Hollywood on the cusp of the sound era, film critic and author Charles Bramesco will introduce the film and sign copies of his new book, Colors of Film: The Story of Cinema in 50 Palettes.
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Uncut Gems
Uncut Gems
When he makes a series of high-stakes bets that could lead to the windfall of a lifetime, Howard Ratner must perform a precarious high-wire act, balancing business, family, and encroaching adversaries on all sides in his relentless pursuit of the ultimate win.
Redefining Leadership, Reimagining Power
Redefining Leadership, Reimagining Power
In connection with Ramadan and Women’s History Month, this community event focuses on women leaders and the many definitions of leadership including speaking up against injustices; taking care of each other and our communities; and creating film art with powerful messages.
Passing
Passing
The debut film by renowned screen and stage actress Hall is a bracingly accomplished adaptation of Nella Larsen’s classic Harlem Renaissance novel about two childhood friends reacquainted as adults.
Uncut Gems
Uncut Gems
When he makes a series of high-stakes bets that could lead to the windfall of a lifetime, Howard Ratner must perform a precarious high-wire act, balancing business, family, and encroaching adversaries on all sides in his relentless pursuit of the ultimate win.
Singin’ in the Rain
Singin’ in the Rain
On the Saturday, March 11 screening of Donen and Kelly’s satirical look at Hollywood on the cusp of the sound era, film critic and author Charles Bramesco will introduce the film and sign copies of his new book, Colors of Film: The Story of Cinema in 50 Palettes.