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The only U.S. museum devoted to film, television, and digital media.
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Museum of the Moving Image advances the understanding, enjoyment, and appreciation of the art, history, technique, and technology of film, television, and digital media. Accessible, innovative, and forward-looking, the Museum presents exhibitions, education programs, significant moving-image works, and interpretive programs, and maintains a collection of moving-image related artifacts. In doing so, the Museum serves a diverse public at its New York City home and online, and provides leadership in its field. Attendance numbers approximately 250,000 visitors each year, including 60,000 school children (pre-pandemic numbers).

10/29/2026

The new exhibition “Seeing the Cinema: Photographic Visions of Movie Theaters” explores the movie theater as both architectural icon and cultural form through a range of photographic practices, offering a powerful meditation on what it has meant—and continues to mean—to gather in the dark to watch stories unfold on a screen.

Featuring work by:
Thomas R. Schiff
Hiroshi Sugimoto
John Margolies
Joseph Holmes

Now on view in our amphitheater gallery through March 21, 2027.

10/29/2026

Now Showing, October 29–November 1

SCREENINGS:

Goodbye, Dragon Inn
FRIDAY AT 6:00

Sneak Preview: The Meltdown (El deshielo)*
FRIDAY AT 7:00

Nosferatu (35mm) with Live Piano Accompaniment*
FRIDAY AT 8:00 • SOLD OUT / STANDBY ONLY

The Vourdalak
SATURDAY AT 1:00

The Exorcist
SATURDAY AT 3:30

Poltergeist (35mm)
SATURDAY AT 6:00

The Shining: International Version*
SUNDAY AT 12:00

The Shining
SUNDAY AT 3:30

PROGRAMS:

MoMI LAB Programs  Demo: Sparky the Robot Dog
THURSDAY–SUNDAY AFTERNOONS • FREE
Public LAB Tour
THURSDAY AT 5:00 • FREE WITH RSVP
Month Offline @ MoMI
SUNDAY AT 2:00

Jim Henson Exhibition Guided Tours
THURSDAY AT 4:00

Phone-Free Friday
FRIDAY, 2:00–8:00

Touch Object Experience
SATURDAY, 11:00–6:00

MoMI After Dark Tour
SATURDAY AT 6:00 • SOLD OUT

Day of the Dead 2026*
SUNDAY, 4:00–6:00 • FREE

Our Open Worlds initiative offers the public free access to the Museum’s ground-floor spaces during regular hours.

EXHIBITION HIGHLIGHTS:

nephomancer
A collaboration between misha de ridder and miragenesi
Opens Thursday, Schlosser Media Wall, lobby

Horrible Sites: Makeup and Production Design for The Exorcist
Second floor, part of Behind the Screen

Seeing the Cinema: Photographic Visions of Movie Theaters
Opening Saturday, Second floor, Amphitheater Gallery

Overexposed: Art, Technology, and the Body
Third floor, changing exhibitions gallery

Learn more, reserve a spot, of get tickets at movingimage.org (link in bio).

10/28/2026

Join us Sunday, November 1, 4:00–6:00 p.m. for our free community celebration of Day of the Dead, co-presented with the The Mexican Cultural Institute of New York!

Featuring performances by Yayauhki Tezcatlipoka and the Mexican Folkloric Ballet of New York, catrina pageant, face painting, and more.

Free admission. Learn more at https://movingimage.org/event/day-of-the-dead-2026/

10/27/2026

“I spoke with Leon Vitali, who was Stanley’s long-time assistant. And Leon told me that the international cut was Stanley’s preferred version of the film.” — filmmaker Lee Unkrich.

This Sunday, don’t miss the U.S. Theatrical Premiere of THE SHINING: INTERNATIONAL VERSION, preceded by a conversation with Steadicam inventor Garrett Brown (who worked on the film) and archivist Michael Chaiken.

Part of our Kubrick retrospective, running November 1-December 27. Presented with support from the Criterion Collection.

10/26/2026

James Gray’s New York • Nov 7–22 at MoMI

We’re thrilled to present a selection of films set in New York personally chosen by the Queens-born-and-raised director James Gray that express the complicated, multifaceted character of the city itself—including a sneak preview screening of his latest PAPER TIGER!

Featuring: MIDNIGHT COWBOY
THE IMMIGRANT
FORCE OF EVIL
RAGING BULL
PAPER TIGER with James Gray in person THE FRENCH CONNECTION
SIDE STREET

📍Museum of the Moving Image, NYC
🎟️ movingimage.org/jamesgraynewyork

10/25/2026

In Nayla Al Khaja’s dark fairy tale BAAB, the audience is plunged into seemingly ordinary domestic spaces that are transformed into an emotional landscape of fear and trauma.

Even scarier than the film’s psychological horror-trip is the fact that it has been so hard to see outside of the region in which it was made. Despite al Khaja’s breakthrough talent as the first female Emirati filmmaker, the delighted reviews out of BAAB’s premiere at the Cairo International Film Festival, a theatrical run throughout the MENA world, and a collaboration with two-time Oscar award-winning Indian film composer A.R. Rahman, the film has never been invited to screen in the US…until now!

Don’t miss your chance to see it this afternoon at 2PM!

10/22/2026

The original 1978 tv spot for MAGIC scarred a generation of unsuspecting kids, leading networks to pull the commercial from the air shortly after it debuted.

So it’s only right that we bring it back for spooky season.

Genuinely unsettling, this shadowy, emotionally gripping thriller about a ventriloquist and his foul-mouthed dummy is diabolically effective in every way. MAGIC screens in 35mm this Sunday, part of our series The Originals.

Tickets available online and in-person.

10/21/2026

Now Showing, October 22-25

SCREENINGS:

Persona: 60th Anniversary Screening (Co-presented with NewFest)
FRIDAY AT 6:15

Music Video Mischief with director Nigel Dick*
FRIDAY AT 6:30 • FREE WITH RSVP

Bram Stoker’s Dracula (35mm)
FRIDAY AT 8:15

Vampire’s Kiss (35mm)
SATURDAY AT 12:30

The Exorcist
SATURDAY AT 3:00

An American Werewolf in London
SATURDAY AT 5:30

The Wolf Man
SUNDAY AT 1:00

Baab
SUNDAY AT 2:00

Magic (35mm)
SUNDAY AT 3:00

Seat at the Table*
SUNDAY AT 5:30 • FREE WITH RSVP

PROGRAMS:
MoMI LAB Programs  Demo: Sparky the Robot Dog
THURSDAY–SUNDAY AFTERNOONS • FREE
Public LAB Tour
THURSDAY AT 5:00 • FREE WITH RSVP
Workshop: Virtual Objects for Virtual Worlds
FRIDAY AT 4:00 • FREE WITH RSVP
Workshop: How to Use Agents and Not Have Them Kill You
FRIDAY AT 6:00 • FREE WITH RSVP
Month Offline @ MoMI
SUNDAY AT 2:00

Jim Henson Exhibition Guided Tours
THURSDAY AT 4:00
SATURDAY AT 3:00

Phone-Free Friday
FRIDAY, 2:00–8:00

MoMI After Dark Tour
SATURDAY AT 6:00 • SOLD OUT

MoMI Halloween Party
SATURDAY, 7:30–11:00 • FREE WITH RSVP

Our Open Worlds initiative offers the public free access to the Museum’s ground-floor spaces during regular hours.

EXHIBITION HIGHLIGHTS:

Terms of Agreement 🐳  Jonas Lund and Yoshi Sodeoka
Closing Sunday: Schlosser Media Wall, lobby

Horrible Sites: Makeup and Production Design for The Exorcist
Second floor, part of Behind the Screen

Seeing the Cinema: Photographic Visions of Movie Theaters
Second floor, Amphitheater Gallery

Overexposed: Art, Technology, and the Body
Third floor, changing exhibitions gallery

Learn more, reserve a spot, of get tickets at movingimage.org (link in bio).

10/21/2026

Across more than four decades the Bronx-born-and-raised Stanley Kubrick produced a filmography we likely will never see again. On the occasion of Criterion’s new box set, The Complete Kubrick, MoMI is pleased to present the legendary director’s full cinematic corpus on the big screen, where his films all must be experienced.

Opening November 1 with the U.S. theatrical premiere of THE SHINING: International Version with Steadicam inventor Garrett Brown and archivist and producer of The Complete Kubrick box set Michael Chaiken in conversation.

KUBRICK
 📆 November 1–December 27
 📍 Museum of the Moving Image, Astoria, NY
 🎟️ Get tickets: movingimage.org/kubrick (link in bio)

Presented with support from the Criterion Collection

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36-01 35th Avenue
Astoria, NY
11106

Opening Hours

Thursday	2pm - 6pm
Friday	2pm - 8pm
Saturday	11am - 6pm
Sunday	11am - 6pm

Telephone

(718) 777-6888

Website

https://www.movingimage.org/

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