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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
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.
Marvels of Media Exhibition: New Ways of Seeing
Marvels of Media Exhibition: New Ways of Seeing
Five award-winning works from this year’s Marvels of Media are featured in this exhibition.
Marvels of Media Awards Ceremony and Exhibition Opening
Marvels of Media Awards Ceremony and Exhibition Opening
On Thursday, March 30, celebrate the winners of this year’s Marvels of Media Awards at this festive evening featuring an awards ceremony and reception, which also marks the opening of the Marvels of Media Exhibition.
Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles
Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles
On 3/31 and 4/9, see Chantal Akerman’s magnum opus, Sight & Sound's recently crowned greatest film ever made.
Godzilla vs. Megalon
Godzilla vs. Megalon
Though once denounced among tokusatsu fans who prefer more serious kaiju fare, this fun adventure, in which the King of the Monsters reaches his peak as campy saurian superhero, has gained a strong cult following in recent years.
Weathering with You
Weathering with You
Following his 2016 hit Your Name, Makoto Shinkai returned with this poignant drama, set in a water-deluged Shinjuku beautifully etched in the director’s signature style. Screening 4/1 and 4/2.
La région centrale
La région centrale
One of the monumental achievements of avant-garde cinema, this is a three-hour long that Michael Snow shot during a single day atop a remote plateau in Northern Quebec.
Wavelength + La Chambre + Hotel Monterey
Wavelength + La Chambre + Hotel Monterey
Michael Snow’s impact on Chantal Akerman’s filmmaking is evident in this pairing of Michael Snow’s classic Wavelength with two films that Akerman made during her 1971–72 stay in New York City.
Weathering with You
Weathering with You
Following his 2016 hit Your Name, Makoto Shinkai returned with this poignant drama, set in a water-deluged Shinjuku beautifully etched in the director’s signature style. Screening 4/1 and 4/2.
Mouchette
Mouchette
Robert Bresson’s bracing adaptation of the novella by George Bernanos about a teen girl in a French village is spare and emotionally devastating.
Mamma Roma
Mamma Roma
Pasolini revived the style of Italian neorealism with his audacious second film, which stars Anna Magnani as a prostitute struggling to escape her past and provide a decent life for her teenage son.
Godzilla vs. Megalon
Godzilla vs. Megalon
Though once denounced among tokusatsu fans who prefer more serious kaiju fare, this fun adventure, in which the King of the Monsters reaches his peak as campy saurian superhero, has gained a strong cult following in recent years.
Je tu il elle
Je tu il elle
Akerman’s first narrative feature, shot on 16mm on a shoestring budget after her return from New York City, is a triptych loosely based on Akerman’s own experiences hitchhiking across Belgium to visit an ex-girlfriend.