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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.
Horrible Sites: Makeup and Production Design for The Exorcist
Horrible Sites: Makeup and Production Design for The Exorcist
With material drawn from MoMI’s permanent collection, this exhibit explores the film’s production and makeup design, detailing how a stylish townhouse in Georgetown, Washington, D.C., and an innocent young girl were transformed into sites of horror.
Reflected Forms: Story and Character in the Films of Todd Haynes
Reflected Forms: Story and Character in the Films of Todd Haynes
On the occasion of Todd Haynes’s May December, MoMI presents an exhibit with materials from the archives of filmmaker Todd Haynes, now part of the Museum’s collection, offering a glimpse into his process of transforming historical and cultural referents into formally ambitious, richly emotional films.
Auriea Harvey: My Veins Are the Wires, My Body Is Your Keyboard
Auriea Harvey: My Veins Are the Wires, My Body Is Your Keyboard
The first major survey of the pioneering net-artist and sculptor Auriea Harvey features more than 40 of Harvey’s works from her career spanning nearly four decades. Extended through December 1, 2024!
Videofreak
Videofreak
Allen Riley's Videofreak reimagines the arcade game experience by emphasizing the art of video manipulation over traditional gameplay elements like scorekeeping and end goals.
Tide Predictor
Tide Predictor
Tide Predictor is LoVid’s first code-driven generative artwork, a departure from a majority of their catalog, which centers experimentation with actual analog video. It will be displayed on the Museum's Schlosser Media Wall in the lobby.
Fiona Tan: Footsteps
Fiona Tan: Footsteps
In this video installation drawn exclusively from films made between 1896 and the late 1920s, Tan pairs mesmerizing moments of people working over a century ago—sewing fishing nets, harvesting wheat, collecting chicken eggs, sorting oysters—with missives from her Australia-based father, read aloud by Scottish actor Ian Henderson.
My Own Yard to Play in
My Own Yard to Play in
My Own Yard to Play in documents children at play on the streets of Harlem in the late 1950s.
Jane Henson in Performance
Jane Henson in Performance
Jane Henson (née Nebel) was one of her husband Jim Henson’s most significant longtime collaborators.This compilation highlights some of Jane’s performances with the Muppets.
Canceled NYTechWeek – AI Mosaic: Diversity in Motion
Canceled NYTechWeek – AI Mosaic: Diversity in Motion
At this free #NYtechweek event on June 4, come explore inclusive AI models and be inspired by founders to gain momentum in the tech, creative, and social justice space.
Advanced Footage of Inside Out 2
Advanced Footage of Inside Out 2
Pixar Chief Creative Officer Pete Docter will appear in person to present exclusive footage from the upcoming sequel to Inside Out
The Big Lebowski
The Big Lebowski
The Coen brothers’ funniest film is a scene-to-scene blast, expertly folding an endless array of visual jokes and verbal gags into an absurdly convoluted plot that casts Jeff Bridges's unemployed, eternally stoned Los Angeles bowling bum Jeff “The Dude” Lebowski as a loser Philip Marlowe.
Trainspotting
Trainspotting
Boyle’s adaptation of Irvine Welsh’s novel about heroin addicts in Edinburgh managed not just to become a hit movie stateside but spawn an iconic cultural moment.
Provincial Actors
Provincial Actors
Agnieszka Holland first gained early recognition with this powerful, claustrophobic study of the tensions and conflicts amongst the members of a minor theatrical troupe in a small town near Warsaw.
Rumble in the Bronx
Rumble in the Bronx
Already a superstar in his native Hong Kong, Jackie Chan officially broke through to the American mainstream with this perfect showcase for the action icon’s breathtaking talent. Screening on 35mm 6/7 and 6/8.
Puppeteering at MoMI
Puppeteering at MoMI
Puppeteer Brian T. Carson leads a puppeteering workshop exploring the fundamentals of the art form, open to all ages and skill levels.
Fever
Fever
Agnieszka Holland's tense, gripping 1905-set drama depicts a group of underground Polish anarchists as they arm themselves and build bombs to resist the incoming Russian Tsarist oppression.
Henson Music in the Courtyard
Henson Music in the Courtyard
Enjoy a performance of instrumental music from films that have captured the hearts of audiences for decades.
Mothra
Mothra
With its impressive special effects and vibrant colors, Mothra represents a highpoint in Toho’s golden age of Kaiju eiga (monster movie).
A Lonely Woman
A Lonely Woman
Agnieszka Holland’s last film made in her home country before she self-exiled to France is a thinly veiled critique of the communist totalitarian system that was banned in Poland.
Jim Henson’s Legacy with Karen Falk, Craig Shemin, and Barbara Miller
Jim Henson’s Legacy with Karen Falk, Craig Shemin, and Barbara Miller
A free panel discussion about Jim Henson's work, collaborations, and legacy.
Rumble in the Bronx
Rumble in the Bronx
Already a superstar in his native Hong Kong, Jackie Chan officially broke through to the American mainstream with this perfect showcase for the action icon’s breathtaking talent. Screening on 35mm 6/7 and 6/8.
The Straight Story
The Straight Story
Featuring vast amber vistas of the American heartland courtesy of the great cinematographer Freddie Francis, The Straight Story is one of David Lynch’s most uncharacteristic and undoubtedly best films. Screening on 35mm 6/9 and 6/22.
Europa Europa
Europa Europa
Agnieszka Holland received an Academy Award nomination for this account of the real-life experiences of a German Jew who, at 16, concealed his Jewishness during WWII. Holland in person on 6/20!
Boomerang
Boomerang
This wildly funny, sophisticated vehicle for Murphy’s too-infrequently tapped skills as a romantic leading man was among the biggest hits of 1992, and all but set the template for the modern-day Black romantic comedy.
Washington Square
Washington Square
Agnieszka Holland’s earthy, deeply felt adaptation of Henry James’s 1880 novel, starring Jennifer Jason Leigh, is a faithful evocation of James’s prose, as well as the time, place, mood, and feeling of its New York setting. Screening in an archival 35mm print on 6/9.
Trainspotting
Trainspotting
Boyle’s adaptation of Irvine Welsh’s novel about heroin addicts in Edinburgh managed not just to become a hit movie stateside but spawn an iconic cultural moment.