Learning & Education

The Academy Museum offers a wide range of film-centered activities, programs, tours, and educational opportunities for learners of all ages and fosters a space to learn, grow, and create.

Accessibility Programs

Calm Morning: The Little Mermaid and Animating Sidekicks

Accessibility Programs

Calm Morning: The Little Mermaid and Animating Sidekicks

Join us for sensory-friendly gallery exploration and a family workshop inspired by the accessible screening of The Little Mermaid (2023).

Calm Morning: Earth Month + Dolphin Tale 2

Accessibility Programs

Calm Morning: Earth Month + Dolphin Tale 2

Join us for sensory-friendly gallery exploration and a family workshop inspired by the accessible screening of Dolphin Tale 2 (2014).

Kids & Families

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Workshops

Drop-In Workshop for Families: Earth Month Mini Set Designs

Join us in the Shirley Temple Education Studio to celebrate Earth Month and create miniature sets by upcycling discarded materials!

Teens

Drop-in Workshop for Teens: Sustainability in Costume Design

Workshops

Drop-in Workshop for Teens: Sustainability in Costume Design

Join Academy Museum educators for drop-in workshop activities for teens.

We meet on the third Friday of every month to learn, create, and be inspired by the museum’s exhibitions and film screenings.

Workshops include various activities such as artmaking, experimenting with moviemaking equipment, and learning the elements of filmmaking!

Workshops are designed for teens ages 14 and up.

All workshops are free with museum admission and are available on a first-come, first-served basis. Snacks will be provided. Museum admission is free for youth ages 17 and under with advance reservation.

If you have any questions or need assistance planning your visit, please email museumeducation@oscars.org

Conversations

Enter the Matrix: Conversation with Lyndon Barrois Sr. and Lilly Wachowski with The Matrix Revolutions in 35mm

Conversations

Enter the Matrix: Conversation with Lyndon Barrois Sr. and Lilly Wachowski with The Matrix Revolutions in 35mm

Join visual and VFX artist Lyndon Barrois Sr. and filmmaker Lilly Wachowski for a conversation on the Matrix trilogy, its legacy of visual effects, world building, and storytelling in the cyberpunk genre. Followed by a screening of The Matrix Revolutions (2003) in 35mm

Gallery Spotlight: Exhibitions for Cinema

Conversations

Gallery Spotlight: Exhibitions for Cinema

Join the Academy Museum in conversation with Executive Vice President of Exhibitions, Shraddha Aryal and Vice President of Curatorial Affairs, Doris Berger as they highlight the museum’s current and past exhibitions.

Gallery Spotlight: Cyberpunk with Alex Rivera

In-Gallery

Gallery Spotlight: Cyberpunk with Alex Rivera

Explore the cyberpunk world with writer/director Alex Rivera as he discusses the genre, its themes, and content.

Member Appreciation Day

Special Events

Member Appreciation Day

Join us for Member Appreciation Days, held on the first Sunday of every month from 5:30 to 8pm. 

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Oscars

The Oscars® Experience + Oscar Program

Take the stage, accept your award, and take home a piece of Oscars history.

An illustration of the Cinephile movie trivia board game with cards displaying actors faces

Special Events

Academy Museum x Cinephile: Movie Trivia Night

Join us for another exciting evening of movie trivia with our friends from Cinephile on Sunday, April 13, from 4:30pm to 7pm. 

For Museum Members Only. Tickets will go on sale beginning March 31. Not a member? Join today.

Tickets are $10 for museum members and $20 for member guests. 

Complimentary wine, beer, and snacks will be provided.

If you can’t join us for the event, the Cinephile card game is available for purchase at the Academy Museum Store. Make any night trivia night! 

Cinephile Game Night is the ultimate trivia night for film nerds, movie geeks, and cinephiles. Featuring a mix of movie trivia and other cinephile games like Six Degrees, Filmography, and   Movie-Actor, Cinephile Game Night is a trivia night like no other. Since 2019, Cinephile has brought their one-of-a-kind live events to the New York Film Festival, Fantastic Fest, Museum of the Moving Image, Alamo Drafthouse, and more. 

Notice of Filming: This event will be photographed for the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures. By entering the premises, you consent to being photographed, filmed, or otherwise recorded and grant the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures permission to use the photographs and/or audiovisual recordings in which visitors appear for archival, documentary, publicity, advertising, or other purposes. 

If you do not wish to be photographed, recorded, or appear under these conditions, please inform an Academy Museum staff member following the completion of the event. 

Thank you for your cooperation. 

May the 4th Celebration: Exploring the Galaxy 2025

Special Events

May the 4th Celebration: Exploring the Galaxy 2025

Is The Force strong with you? Join the Academy Museum as we explore the galaxy for a Star Wars-inspired May the 4th Celebration!

Summits/Symposia

Careers in Film Summit 2025

Mark your calendars and join the Academy Museum on April 5–6, 2025, for the Careers in Film Summit. This event is a free annual program that raises awareness about the range of film-related industry job pathways for students from under-resourced communities and those interested in pursuing filmmaking as a career.

In-Gallery Programs

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Tours

Color in Motion Tours

Join museum educators Wednesday through Sunday for 45-minute guided tours of the Color in Motion: Chromatic Explorations of Cinema exhibition.

Oscars Tours: Through the Decades

Tours

Oscars Tours: Through the Decades

Join museum educators Wednesdays through Sundays for 30-minute tours of the Academy Award History gallery and Oscars gallery.

Calm Morning: The Little Mermaid and Animating Sidekicks

Accessibility Programs

Calm Morning: The Little Mermaid and Animating Sidekicks

Join us for sensory-friendly gallery exploration and a family workshop inspired by the accessible screening of The Little Mermaid (2023).

Highlights Tours: Bong Joon Ho

Tours

Highlights Tours: Bong Joon Ho

Join educators as they highlight the Director’s Inspiration: Bong Joon Ho exhibition.

Curator’s View Tours: Encounters

Tours

Curator’s View Tours: Encounters

Join curatorial staff and explore the Inventing Worlds and Characters: Encounters gallery.

Calm Morning: Earth Month + Dolphin Tale 2

Accessibility Programs

Calm Morning: Earth Month + Dolphin Tale 2

Join us for sensory-friendly gallery exploration and a family workshop inspired by the accessible screening of Dolphin Tale 2 (2014).

Curator's View Tours: Designing to Music

Tours

Curator's View Tours: Designing to Music

Join curatorial staff and explore the Identity galleries.

Gallery Spotlight: Cyberpunk with Alex Rivera

In-Gallery

Gallery Spotlight: Cyberpunk with Alex Rivera

Explore the cyberpunk world with writer/director Alex Rivera as he discusses the genre, its themes, and content.

Tours

School Visits

The Academy Museum of Motion Pictures invites you and your students to learn, discuss, and celebrate cinema through a school visit to the museum. School visits including school tours and self-guided group explorations

Animation & Me: Drop-in and Draw

Workshops

Animation & Me: Drop-in and Draw

Unleash your inner animator! Draw along to animation art pulled from the Academy's extensive film collection with special guest animators and museum educators in the Animation & Me gallery.

Drop-in Tactile Filmmaking Workshop

Workshops

Drop-in Tactile Filmmaking Workshop

Join us for an exciting Drop-in Tactile Filmmaking Workshop, drawing inspiration from our new exhibition, Color in Motion: Chromatic Explorations of Cinema.

Family doing arts and crafts at table

Workshops

Drop-In Workshop for Families: Earth Month Mini Set Designs

Join us in the Shirley Temple Education Studio to celebrate Earth Month and create miniature sets by upcycling discarded materials!

Drop-in Workshop for Teens: Sustainability in Costume Design

Workshops

Drop-in Workshop for Teens: Sustainability in Costume Design

Join Academy Museum educators for drop-in workshop activities for teens.

We meet on the third Friday of every month to learn, create, and be inspired by the museum’s exhibitions and film screenings.

Workshops include various activities such as artmaking, experimenting with moviemaking equipment, and learning the elements of filmmaking!

Workshops are designed for teens ages 14 and up.

All workshops are free with museum admission and are available on a first-come, first-served basis. Snacks will be provided. Museum admission is free for youth ages 17 and under with advance reservation.

If you have any questions or need assistance planning your visit, please email museumeducation@oscars.org

Blue cloth hanging on a clothesline with clothespins.

Workshops

Drop-in Tactile Filmmaking Workshop: Earth Day Edition 

Join us outside for an exciting Earth Day-inspired Drop-in Tactile Filmmaking Workshop where we’ll use the power of the sun to make photographic images!

Fellowship Opportunities