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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: 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.
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.
Office of In Visibility Presents: SAN TV
Office of In Visibility Presents: SAN TV
With this video installation by artist sTo Len, who is currently a Public Artist in Residence (PAIR) at the New York City Department of Sanitation, viewers have the chance to report, via green screen, from various shuttered waste sites in New York City, such as the Fresh Kills Landfill.
Thirteen Lives
Thirteen Lives
Free screening with director Ron Howard in person! Dir. Ron Howard. 2022, 142 min. DCP. With Viggo Mortensen, Colin Farrell, Joel Edgerton, and Tom Bateman. Story by Don Macpherson and William Nicholson. Screenplay by William ...
Benediction
Benediction
On 1/6, see the great British director Terence Davies's aching biographical film about pacifist poet and World War I veteran Siegfried Sassoon.
The Territory
The Territory
Alex Pritz joins us in person 1/6 for his acclaimed documentary, a marvel of collaborative filmmaking partially shot by the Uru-eu-wau-wau people and filmed over the course of several years.
Apollo 10 ½: A Space Age Childhood
Apollo 10 ½: A Space Age Childhood
On 1/7 & 1/13, see one of the most underappreciated films of 2022 from American cinema’s deftest memory maker, Richard Linklater.
EO
EO
The legendary Jerzy Skolimowski has created an arresting, funny, and tragic portrait of humanity in all its foibles, told from the perspective of a donkey.
Irma Vep (Episodes 1–4)
Irma Vep (Episodes 1–4)
Olivier Assayas's magical and brilliantly conceived 2022 re-imagining of his own 1996 movie stars Oscar-winner Alicia Vikander as a Hollywood star who has come to Paris to fill the role once inhabited by Maggie Cheung.
Saint Omer
Saint Omer
The fiction feature debut by documentary filmmaker Alice Diop is both intensely psychological and observationally distant, a film about the impossibility of fully knowing another person and the estrangement of living in an adopted world.
Aftersun
Aftersun
Director Charlotte Wells appears in person on 1/7 to present her acclaimed, poignant breakthrough drama, which offers an entirely new approach to the family memento movie.
Murina
Murina
On 1/8, director Antoneta Alamat Kusijanović appears in person to present her Cannes-awarded, sexually charged coming-of-age tale set in scenic coastal Croatia.
Petite Maman
Petite Maman
In her exquisitely crafted jewel of a film, Céline Sciamma has fashioned an uncommonly perceptive, lightly metaphysical drama about memory, grief, coming-of-age, and the gifts passed between generations.
Irma Vep (Episodes 5–8)
Irma Vep (Episodes 5–8)
Olivier Assayas's magical and brilliantly conceived 2022 re-imagining of his own 1996 movie stars Oscar-winner Alicia Vikander as a Hollywood star who has come to Paris to fill the role once inhabited by Maggie Cheung.
All That Breathes
All That Breathes
As environmental toxicity and civil unrest escalate, the relationship between this family and the neglected, eco-essential kites forms a poetic chronicle of the city’s collapsing ecology and deepening social fault lines.
Decision to Leave
Decision to Leave
In his triumphant return to feature filmmaking, virtuoso South Korean filmmaker Park Chan-wook delivers a breathlessly involving thriller that doubles as a kind of twisted romantic comedy.