Museum of the Moving Image

Museum of the Moving Image 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).

"So impossibly vast, its perspective so breathtakingly cosmic, that wrapping your arms around it seems a fool's errand."...
06/11/2026

"So impossibly vast, its perspective so breathtakingly cosmic, that wrapping your arms around it seems a fool's errand." – Reverse Shot

Don't miss your last chance to see DAYS OF HEAVEN in our Redstone Theater this Sunday!

Get tickets: https://movingimage.org/event/days-of-heaven/2026-06-13/

More than 40 years before RuPaul's Drag Race, the groundbreaking documentary THE QUEEN, about the 1967 Miss All-American...
06/06/2026

More than 40 years before RuPaul's Drag Race, the groundbreaking documentary THE QUEEN, about the 1967 Miss All-American Camp Beauty Pageant, introduced audiences to the world of competitive drag. See it today, June 6, 3PM in a 35mm print!

Get tickets: movingimage.org/event/the-queen/

Perhaps most memorable scene is an epic diatribe calling out the pageant’s biases delivered by Crystal LaBeija, who would go on to form the influential House of Beija, heavily featured in Paris Is Burning.

Goooooooooaaaaaaal! World Cup fever comes to MoMI June 12–July 17. Join us for family programming, hands-on animation an...
06/04/2026

Goooooooooaaaaaaal! World Cup fever comes to MoMI June 12–July 17. Join us for family programming, hands-on animation and games, special offers, and LIVE WATCH PARTIES of World Cup games in our grand Redstone Theater – in 4K!!

On deck:

June 12–July 17: Football Fridays promotion
Show your support for your favorite team, country, or player by wearing a soccer jersey to the Museum. You can receive 10% off general admission (walk-ups only) and purchases at the Café

Friday, June 19, 12–6pm: Family Day Football
The whole family is welcome for free games on our ground floor including Subsoccer, Subbuteo (table-top game), the VR game FC26! Free admission

Friday, June 19, 3pm: LIVE WATCH PARTY of USA vs Australia
Experience the game larger than life—and in 4K (Fox broadcast)—in our Redstone Theater! Snacks and drinks will be available from Mon Amour cafe. Free with RSVP.

More to come! Check out the schedule at https://movingimage.org/series/world-cup-2026-momi/

Sonia Manzano became beloved as SESAME STREET’s Maria, a role she played for 44 years. But while millions know Sonia as ...
06/01/2026

Sonia Manzano became beloved as SESAME STREET’s Maria, a role she played for 44 years. But while millions know Sonia as Maria, few know about her remarkable journey from the South Bronx to the original off-Broadway company of Godspell, to becoming the first Latina to play a regular role on television, and to her creation of the award-winning PBS show ALMA'S WAY.

We’re thrilled to welcome Sonia Manzano and director Ernie Bustamante on June 20 & 21 for special screenings of STREET SMART: LESSONS FROM A TV ICON featuring interviews (including Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor and Oscar- and Grammy-winning composer Stephen Schwartz), original animation, and scripted scenes that bring Sonia’s past to life.

Part of our ongoing Jim Henson’s World series. Get tickets: https://movingimage.org/event/street-smart/2026-06-20/

Today, May 31, catch back-to-back screenings of landmark L.A. films—both captured in stunning black-and-white cinematogr...
05/31/2026

Today, May 31, catch back-to-back screenings of landmark L.A. films—both captured in stunning black-and-white cinematography.

At 3:00, see THE EXILES (1961, 35mm), a rare look at a community of Indigenous people who are living in the downtown section of the city known as Bunker Hill, after having been displaced from their reservation. Refusing to construct a portrait of melancholy outsiders, director Kent Mackenzie instead shows his subjects as part of the city’s nightlife and culture.

At 4:45, see KILLER OF SHEEP (1977), the most widely celebrated film of the fabled “L.A. Rebellion” of Black filmmakers revolutionizing cinema in the seventies, this American masterpiece was written, shot, and edited by Charles Burnett. An impressionistic portrait of a Black family man eaten up by life’s financial burdens, fighting to save his soul and support his family in Los Angeles’s Watts neighborhood, the film is an aesthetic triumph, touched as much by tenderness as frustration, and fueled by the internal emotional rhythms of all its characters.

Both are part of the series By the People, for the People: Real American Lives, which continues through July 5.

Get tickets at movingimage.org/series/by-the-people/

Final weekend: see the exhibition “Stories and Set Designs for The Sopranos,” a look at the development of the celebrate...
05/30/2026

Final weekend: see the exhibition “Stories and Set Designs for The Sopranos,” a look at the development of the celebrated series’ story arcs and character trajectories, and set designs, as it moved from a pilot into the first season. Last day: Sunday, May 31.

Learn more: https://movingimage.org/event/stories-and-sets-for-the-sopranos/

The internet is in shambles… and it’s time to leave it for good. Join us this Thursday for a preview of Lucas Rizzotto’s...
05/27/2026

The internet is in shambles… and it’s time to leave it for good. Join us this Thursday for a preview of Lucas Rizzotto’s ESCAPE THE INTERNET, his hot-from-SXSW game built for a movie theater! You and other audience members play as internet refugees armed only with your phones. Your mission? To escape the AI slop apocalypse and reach the Island of Sanctuary, rumored to be the last good place on the internet.

The evening opens with a reception, followed by gameplay in the theater, followed by discussion with Rizzotto and Gabo Arora, MoMI Director of Strategic Initiatives.

📆 Thursday, May 28, 6:00–8:00 p.m.
🎟️ Free with RSVP at https://luma.com/o1m1v4n1 (Limited capacity)
📍 Museum of the Moving Image, 36-01 35 Ave, Astoria

This event is the latest in our programs leading up to the opening of MoMI LAB, the Museum ’s new artist-led co-creation space focused on emerging technologies, opening June 13.

05/19/2026

As our country celebrates 250 years, our latest series highlights films that take on the perspective of the nation’s historically marginalized and less frequently represented on screen.

Join us for “By the People, For the People: Real American Tales,” May 29–July 5. Fourteen films, including MATEWAN, DO THE RIGHT THING, THE EXILES, GRAPES OF WRATH, CHAN IS MISSING, LOS SURES, SALT OF THE EARTH, KILLER OF SHEEP, and more!

Tickets: https://movingimage.org/series/by-the-people/

Research shows that walking sparks creativity and can improve your mood. Join us Sat, May 30 for the next Open Worlds: S...
05/18/2026

Research shows that walking sparks creativity and can improve your mood. Join us Sat, May 30 for the next Open Worlds: Science program, New York Loves to Walk. Learn about what walking does for your brain with scientist Catherine Hartley, see the movie THE WORLD BEFORE YOUR FEET with its subject Matt Green and director Jeremy Workman in person, and take a walk to Socrates Sculpture Park (led by Green + Workman)!

🚶🏻‍♀️ New York Loves to Walk
📆 Saturday, May 30, 12:00–5:30 p.m.
📍Museum of the Moving Image, 36-01 35 Ave, Astoria, NY
🎟️ FREE. RSVP at https://movingimage.org/event/new-york-loves-to-walk/

‘Open Worlds: Science’ is supported by the Simons Foundation's Science, Society & Culture division.

See rare Muppet TV history come to life on screen this weekend in "Jim Henson: Tele-Visionary," a Muppets History 101 co...
05/16/2026

See rare Muppet TV history come to life on screen this weekend in "Jim Henson: Tele-Visionary," a Muppets History 101 compilation created by series programmer Craig Shemin, President of The Jim Henson Legacy, and longtime Muppet head writer Jerry Juhl. Showing twice: today, May 16, at 1:00 p.m. and Sunday at 12:30 p.m.!

Learn more and get tickets: https://movingimage.org/event/tele-visionary-2026/2026-05-16/

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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

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(718) 777-6888

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