Behind the Screen Tour
20-60 minutes, Grades 4 - 12, family groups, adults, seniors, and university classes

Students learn about how moving images are made, marketed, and shown, while discovering the many careers open to them in the moving-image industries. Under the guidance of a Museum educator, students actively explore and discuss artifacts and artworks, and experiment with hands-on interactive experiences and demonstrations. This tour serves as an ideal introduction to the Museum and its collection, and discussions can be focused to address the class’ specific curricular needs.

Programs can be offered virtually, with an educator visiting your google classroom or zoom group. You can also request a google classroom or zoom meeting set up by the Museum's education department. Kindly include the number of participants for our records.

The Jim Henson Exhibition: Guided Tour & Workshop
20-60 minutes, Grades 1 - 12, family groups, adults, seniors, and university classes

In this inquiry-based tour of The Jim Henson Exhibition, students explore the creative genius and legacy of Jim Henson, which includes puppets, character sketches, scripts, interactive experiences, and costumes from the worlds of Sesame Street, The Muppet Show, Fraggle Rock, and more.

Programs can be offered virtually, with an educator visiting your google classroom or zoom group. You can also request a google classroom or zoom meeting set up by the Museum's education department. Kindly include the number of participants for our records.

20-60 minutes, Grades 4 - 12, family groups, adults, seniors, and university classes
Explore the cinematic innovations of science fiction and fantasy genres with a Museum educator as your guide, in this tour of highlights from both the Envisioning 2001 exhibition and the Museum's core exhibition Behind the Screen on weekends and Friday evenings. Kindly include the number of participants for our records.

Optional: a 2001: A Space Odyseey-centric virtual tour experience

MoMI Education is currently offering virtual fieldtrips for school groups, as well as tours of our interactive exhibitions and media workshops for all ages. Workshops range from film appreciation and world-building through science fiction to hands-on media-making and puppetry for the screen. Online educational programs are led by museum educators, media artists, filmmakers, and game designers, and each is specifically tailored to the interests of your group. Great for schools, home-school groups, seniors, college classes, and anyone interested in the cinematic arts.

Groups can select one workshop from the list below.

• Character Design Workshop •
Inspired by the Anything Muppets of Sesame Street, students will receive materials to print and, using other objects found around the house, will design and create their own characters.

• World-building with Video Games Workshop •
This is an exploratory course, allowing students to experiment with different types of gaming, from RPG to Twine word-based games. Students will discuss story and play styles and the evolution of gaming.

• Science & Film: Screening & Discussion •
Featuring films supported by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation’s film program, students will find where science and the moving image meet, engaging in discussions on scientific and technological themes.

• Living Room Candidate Discussion •
Viewing politicians through a new light, analyzing political advertisements and rhetoric.

• Motion Picture Workshop •
Students engage in hands-on experiences that help them understand the science that underlies our perception of moving images. Students create their own thaumatrope, a Victorian-era optical to make at home. Students need tape, rubber bands, and markers.

• Film Appreciation Workshop •
Learn to see the world through the eyes of a cinematographer in this film appreciation course for teens. Build your understanding of film language through an exploration of the diverse mechanics of cinema. Students will develop an understanding of the tricks of visual storytelling to deliver non-verbal communication and artistic expression.

• Green Screen Workshop •
Students will learn about the history and tools for green screening within the moving image. Through the creation of a green screen set on their own devices, students will use their imagination and materials at home to experiment with illusion- making.

• The Creation & Evolution of Animation •
A workshop that describes the history of animation from hand drawn to motion sensors with Japanese anime.

• Storyboarding Workshop •
Students learn the art of creating storyboards based on a filmmaking idea.

• Music Video Workshop •
Inspired by music, students will create storyboards and a short animated music video.

• DIY filmmaking with smart phones & tablets
Exploring available tools at their fingertips, students will create their own cinematic shorts with their phones, tablets, and computers.

PLEASE NOTE: This is the tour only. This option does not include Screening America or the supplementary workshops. If you would like your students to see a film or participate in a workshop, please select the correct option from the main page.

Students learn about how moving images are made, marketed, and shown, while discovering the many careers open to them in the moving-image industries. Under the guidance of a Museum educator, students actively explore and discuss artifacts and artworks, and experiment with hands-on interactive experiences and demonstrations. This tour serves as an ideal introduction to the Museum and its collection, and discussions can be focused to address the class’ specific curricular needs.

Groups will receive an introduction from a Museum educator, and then explore any of the Museum’s general-admission exhibitions with their teachers and chaperones. The whole museum can be experienced in an hour and a half, and self-guided groups are welcome to stay for up to two hours.

Students must be accompanied by chaperones at all times during self-guided visits.

Along with a guided tour of the Museum’s core exhibition, students experience a historic film or television episode in one of the Museum’s state-of-the-art movie theaters as part of the Screening America program. These screenings, which include a post-screening discussion, use historic media to help teach English, English as a Second Language, and Social Studies, with a focus on American history. This episode of I Love Lucy ("Job Switching," 1952) explores women at work in the fifties.

Along with a guided tour of the Museum’s core exhibition, students experience a historic film or television episode in one of the Museum’s state-of-the-art movie theaters as part of the Screening America program. These screenings, which include a post-screening discussion, use historic media to help teach English, English as a Second Language, and Social Studies, with a focus on American history.

Charlie Chaplin's film ,The Immigrant (1917) explores screen comedy and the immigrant experience.

Along with a guided tour of the Museum’s core exhibition, students experience a historic film or television episode in one of the Museum’s state-of-the-art movie theaters as part of the Screening America program. These screenings, which include a post-screening discussion, use historic media to help teach English, English as a Second Language, and Social Studies, with a focus on American history.

Charlie Chaplin's film ,The Immigrant (1917) explores screen comedy and the immigrant experience. There is a $175 fee for live musical accompaniment

Along with a guided tour of The Jim Henson Exhibition, students learn about the science, technology, engineering, art, and math behind the creation of imaginary worlds through puppetry, with a screening of clips from Henson's Muppet Show in one of the Museum’s movie theaters. This program is a dynamic complement to any STEAM curriculum.

In this inquiry-based tour of The Jim Henson Exhibition, students explore the creative genius and legacy of Jim Henson, which includes puppets, character sketches, scripts, interactive experiences, and costumes from the worlds of Sesame Street, The Muppet Show, Fraggle Rock, and more.

The Character Design Workshop inspired by the concept of the Anything Muppets, a modular system used to design extra characters in Sesame Street.

Visitors learn about how moving images are made, marketed, and shown, while discovering the many careers open to them in the moving-image industries. Under the guidance of a Museum educator, students actively explore and discuss artifacts and artworks, and experiment with hands-on interactive experiences and demonstrations. This tour serves as an ideal introduction to the Museum and its collection.

This tour is for Adult and Senior Groups only.*

In this inquiry-based tour of The Jim Henson Exhibition, students explore the creative genius and legacy of Jim Henson, which includes puppets, character sketches, scripts, interactive experiences, and costumes from the worlds of Sesame Street, The Muppet Show, Fraggle Rock, and more. The Museum offers a supplementary Storyboarding Workshop in which students explore design-thinking through advertising agency exercises modeled after Henson's early work for television.

Students participate in a guided tour of the Museum’s core exhibition, and also explore the world of digital game design through a hands-on, educator-led workshop. Students are introduced to basic game design principles, and then work in teams to use programming software to build their own unique versions of a ping-pong style video game.

Students build on their experiences of a guided tour of the Museum’s core exhibition, and engage in hands-on experiences that help them understand the science that underlies our perception of moving images. Students create their own thaumatrope, a Victorian-era optical toy, to take home with them.

PLEASE NOTE: This is the tour for Behind the Screen only. This option does not include the Jim Henson Exhibition or the supplementary workshops. If you would like your students to see a film or participate in a workshop, please select the correct option from the main page.

Students learn about how moving images are made, marketed, and shown, while discovering the many careers open to them in the moving-image industries. Under the guidance of a Museum educator, students actively explore and discuss artifacts and artworks, and experiment with hands-on interactive experiences and demonstrations. This tour serves as an ideal introduction to the Museum and its collection, and discussions can be focused to address the class’ specific curricular needs.

Along with a guided tour of the Museum’s core exhibition, students experience a historic film or television episode in one of the Museum’s state-of-the-art movie theaters as part of the Screening America program. These screenings, which include a post-screening discussion, use historic media to help teach English, English as a Second Language, and Social Studies, with a focus on American history.

When please enter your Screening America choice in the registration form: http://www.movingimage.us/education/screeningamerica

As an extension of the guided tour of Behind the Screen, students explore basic principles of video production through the lens of political campaign advertising. Working with archival materials from The Living Room Candidate, the Museum’s online exhibition of historic presidential campaign commercials, students remix and re-edit a campaign commercial from an actual presidential campaign.

In this inquiry-based tour of The Jim Henson Exhibition, students explore the creative genius and legacy of Jim Henson, which includes puppets, character sketches, scripts, interactive experiences, and costumes from the worlds of Sesame Street, The Muppet Show, Fraggle Rock, and more.

Groups will receive an introduction from a Museum educator, and then explore any of the Museum’s general-admission exhibitions with their teachers and chaperones.