Exhibitions – Museum of the Moving Image

CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

A gallery with a screen showing a statue's face, over which is projected black and white stripes that also emerge out of the screen onto the walls of the gallery

Cinema of Sensations: The Never-Ending Screen of Val del Omar

March 10–October 1, 2023

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.

The Jim Henson Exhibition

Ongoing

This dynamic experience explores Jim Henson’s groundbreaking work for film and television and his transformative impact on culture.

Four women sitting in a hayloft in a barn talk with each other, including the director on the right, listening with a pen and paper and wearing a mask and headphones

Adapting Stories for the Screen: Sarah Polley’s Women Talking

Temporary Exhibition

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.

A mother in a yellow dress and her son, in a blue suit and fedora stand on a train platform.

Adapting Stories for the Screen: Chinonye Chukwu’s Till

Temporary Exhibition

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.

LAIKA: Life in Stop Motion

September 1, 2022–August 27, 2023

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.

A man and woman in period dress stare directly at camera

An Act of Seeing: Barry Jenkins’s The Gaze

Ongoing

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.

Creatures from the Land of Thra: Character Design for The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance

Ongoing

This exhibition explores the process of designing the fantastical characters for the Netflix series prequel to the 1982 film.

Behind the Screen

Ongoing

The Museum's core exhibition immerses visitors in the creative and technical process of producing, promoting, and presenting films, television shows, and digital entertainment.