American Museum Of The Moving Image

Programs: Exhibitions and collectionsthe museum presents exhibitions and installations that explore the creation of moving images. The core exhibition of the museum, behind the screen, is a one-of-a-kind experience that immerses visitors in the creative and technical process of producing, promoting, and presenting films, television shows, and digital entertainment. Occupying 15,000 square feet of the museum's second and third floors, the exhibition reveals the skills, material resources, and artistic decisions that go into making moving images. Changing exhibitions in fiscal year 2017 included martin scorsese, the first major exhibition exploring the iconic director's remarkable half-century of filmmaking within the context of his personal history and his love of cinema; and video arcade, in which visitors could play video game classics from the 1980s, such as space invaders and frogger, in their original form. The museum also created a traveling version of its soon-to-open exhibition devoted to the work of the renowned performer, filmmaker, and innovator jim henson; the traveling version made its debut at seattle's museum of popular culture in may 2017. The museum's collection of over 130,000 artifacts relating to the art, history, and technology of the moving image, is one of the most important of its kind in the world and is an invaluable resource for both the general public and for scholars.

film and digital media programseach year the museum screens more than 500 films in a mix of the classic and the contemporary. With live music for silent films, restored prints from the world's leading archives, and outstanding new films from the international festival circuit, museum programs are recognized for their quality as well as their scope. From the global discoveries presented in the annual showcase first look, to the action-packed thrillers shown in the popular monthly series fist and sword, to retrospectives devoted to the films of martin scorsese, henry belafonte, and agnes varda, screenings in fy17 reflected the museum's panoramic view of the history of the moving image. Other ongoing programs offered in fy17 included changing the picture (a selection of works by filmmakers of color), india kaleidoscope: celebrating india's regional cinema, the new york korean film festival, curator's choice (a selection of the best films of 2017) and adventures in nonfiction, a monthly series of vanguard documentary filmmaking.

educational and interpretive programsthe museum provides curriculum-based educational experiences to approximately 50,000 students each year, as well as an array of dynamic, engaging tours, talks, workshops, and screenings for children, teens, families, adults, and seniors. Learning activities include guided tours of the museum's exhibitions, free design jams at which students experiment with digital tools to solve design challenges, intensive multi-day workshops for high-school students at which participants experiment with state-of-the-art digital and analog video game design, and screening america, which uses screenings of historic films and television episodes, with guided post-screening discussions, to help teach english, english as a second language, and american history.