Museum of the Moving Image

35th Avenue at 36th Street
Astoria, NY 11106
(718) 784-4520 - (718) 784-0077 Program Information & Travel Directions
Internet: www.movingimage.us

This widely acclaimed institution is the only museum in the United States devoted to the art, history, and technology of motion pictures, television, and video. Here's what Stephen Holden of the New York Times had to say: "One had the sense of being transported from the everyday world straight to the set of a modern-day Oz . . . [Behind the Screen is] an educational fantasy world that teaches the history of the movie and television business while offering the hungriest nostalgia buffs tons of memorabilia." Behind the Screen . . . is a permanent exhibition designed to promote understanding of the place of film and television in American history and culture.

IMPORTANT NOTE: The Museum is currently closed while renovations are underway that will result in an exciting expansion, doubling the Museum's size and dramatically improving facilities for the Museum's innovative screenings, programs and exhibitions.

Behind the Screen will reopen in early 2009 and the Grand Opening of the renovated Museum will be celebrated in late 2009.

During the expansion project Museum of the Moving Image will continue to present an extensive schedule of programs in venues throughout New York City, including The Times Center in midtown Manhattan. For upcoming program information, please go to http://www.movingimage.us/site/calendar/pages/index_upcoming.html. For more information and to see images of the expansion project, please follow the link from Museum's home page http://movingimage.us.

This page will be updated with new Museum information as soon as it becomes available.

Nearby: Isamu Noguchi Art Museum , Institute for Contemporary Art .