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Museum of Moving Image

Opened in 1988, Museum of the Moving Image is the only museum in the US that introduces the art, history, and technology of the moving image to its visitors. The museum focuses on film, television, and digital media by providing exhibitions, educational programs, and collecting and preserving moving-image related artifacts. One of the main technological media they specialize in is screenings. They screen over 400 films each year on their diverse screening program that showcases the moving images in a panoramic view. The museum has two main theaters, 267-seat Summer M. Redstone theater and the 68-seat Celeste and Armand Bartos Screening Room. 


Their core exhibition of the museum, Behind the Screen, provides a computer-based interactive experience. Visitors have the opportunity to record their own movements in sequenced still photographs, which then can be created into a printed flipbook. They can also create their own stop-motion animations, record their own dialogue for a film, and add music to different scenes from movies.