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On the occasion of the 50th anniversary of hip-hop, we took a deep dive into the vaults of the Museum’s collection and found a pair of video games incorporating the beats and culture of rap music.

The Museum’s collection includes a wide range of historically significant television receivers.

The Museum’s collection of film, television, and video game licensed merchandise includes over 20,000 artifacts from 1914 to the present.

In 1991, the renowned special effects makeup artist Dick Smith donated a unique collection of artifacts related to his work to Museum of the Moving Image.

Long before the advent of cinema in the mid-1890s, audiences were captivated by the illusion of moving images through the use of magic lanterns and optical toys.

Tut’s Fever Movie Palace is artists Red Grooms and Lysiane Luong’s interpretation of the exotic picture palaces of the 1920s, which was commissioned by the Museum in 1987.

Early in its history, Museum of the Moving Image extended its conception of the “moving image” beyond film and television to encompass video games and other forms of digital media.

The Museum’s collection of more than 130,000 objects includes a broad range of production design material from many significant films and television programs. In collaboration with the director, the production designer oversees a team of artists, carpenters, and other craftspeople who create the physical environment of a film or television program based on a script.

The Museum’s collection includes more than 1,500 glass slides, which were an integral part of the early cinema experience.

The Museum’s collection includes more than 2,000 photographs that document the production of Paramount films at the Astoria Studio in Queens.