Learning & Education

On the last Friday of every month, a Visual Description Tour within the museum’s Stories of Cinema exhibition, or additional galleries, will be offered at 2pm to align with our ongoing Stories of Cinema Drop-In Tours, which are offered every Friday from 1pm to 3pm.  

An educator will provide a verbal overview for visitors who are blind or low vision. Visual Description is a way of using words to represent the visual world, of helping people form mental images of what they cannot see. All are welcome to join this gallery conversation. 

American Sign Language (ASL) tours are always offered on the same day as our monthly Calm Morning program and accommodative Family Matinee film screening. Stories of Cinema galleries will be featured on tours at noon. Join a museum educator and ASL interpreter to experience cinema’s wide-ranging contributions to the world.

Join us for sensory-friendly gallery exploration and a family workshop inspired by the accessible screening of Jungle Cruise (2021).

Join us in the Shirley Temple Education Studio to create your own miniature props!

Calling all witches, ghosts, and ghouls! Join the Academy Museum for a wicked good time. The museum will host a fun-filled day of special effects makeup demonstrations, storied tours, special monster appearances, and activities exploring the monstrous feminine. Embrace this year’ theme with the bride, witches, vampires, and more!

Free with the purchase of a general admission ticket. Museum admission is free for youths 17 and under.

Schedule  

9am | Calm Morning: The Bride of Frankenstein’s Sound Lab

11am Accessible Screening | Family Matinee

90th anniversary of Bride of Frankenstein (1935)

Location: David Geffen Theater

Separate ticketed event

11am–1:30pm | Special Effects Makeup and Hair Demonstration

Location: Sidney Poitier Grand Lobby | L1

Join us for a scary good time with special effects transformations by special effects makeup artist Gabi Gonzalez, Academy Award®-winner Howard Berger, and Academy Award®-winner Yolanda Toussieng.

General admission ticket not required.

2pm | Screening

The Love Witch (2016)

Location: David Geffen Theater

Separate ticketed event

2:30pm-5:00pm | Tarot, Palm Reading and the Stars | Ted Mann Lobby

Embrace your past, present, and future and delight in a fun tarot and palm reading.

12:30, 1:30pm 3:00pm, 4:00pm | Monster Meet and Greet

Location: Sidney Poitier Grand Lobby | L1

Come meet Universal Studios classic movie monsters the Bride of Frankenstein and Frankenstein for a special photo opportunity. It’ll be a scream.

General admission ticket not required.

Noon–4 pm | Scripted Frights Tours

Location: L2

Explore scripts, storyboards, and highlighted objects that explore mysteries, horror, and thrills with a museum educator for a 30-minute guided tour of the Story gallery and Director’s Inspiration: Bong Joon Ho gallery.

Among shadowy galleries, examine the scripts of Hitchcock’s Rebecca (1940) which was inspired from Daphne Du Maurier’s suspenseful 1938 mystery novel, view the seemingly normal typewriter that birthed the haunting script of Psycho (1960), and explore the monstrous creature design and storyboards of Bong Joon Ho’s The Host (2011).

Tours will meet on Level 2 at *Noon, 1pm, 3pm and 4pm.

*Noon tour will be accompanied with ASL interpretation

Tours have limited space and are first-come, first-served. Please arrive at the meeting place on Level 3 up to 10 minutes before the start of the tour to secure your spot.    

3pm-5pm - Scream Queens: Voice Acting Drop-in Workshop | Education Studio

Open to all ages! Become a Scream Queen and join us in the Shirley Temple Education Studio for a frightful but laugh-out-loud voice acting workshop where you jump into some of your favorite monstrous feminine films.

7:30pm Screening

Jennifer’s Body (2019)

Location: David Geffen Theater

Separate ticketed event

Screenings

Purchase tickets for Bride of Frankenstein (1935).

Purchase tickets for The Love Witch (2016).

Purchase tickets for Jennifer’s Body (2009).

Join us in the Shirley Temple Education Studio to create your own ofrenda.

The Academy Museum Teen Council presents Study the Past, Create the Future! Teen Short Film Showcase, celebrating the creativity of teen filmmakers in Los Angeles.

Join us for a concept art workshop in the Shirley Temple Education Studio.

Join Academy Award-winning sound mixers Ron Bartlett and Doug Hemphill in conversation as they discuss their works of mixing Blade Runner 2049 (2017). Both were nominated for Blade Runner 2049 and won for Dune: Part One (2021) and Dune: Part Two (2024).

Following our Gallery Spotlight: Sound Mixing Blade Runner 2049, we will explore the art of sound mixing in the Shirley Temple Education Studio. Visitors can practice mixing a simple soundscape to learn about how sounds, music, and dialogue combine to create a cohesive soundtrack. No previous sound experience is required, and beginners are encouraged. For inspiration, visit the Sound gallery in our Stories of Cinema exhibition on Level 2.

About Ron Bartlett:

“Having been a musician all my life, sound has always been a huge part of my work and my art. Getting the chance to collaborate with great directors and fellow sound editors and mixers is a fantastic thing to be a part of. I love being creative and watching a film come together with a great mix!”

Ron Bartlett started as a musician at the age of 5 playing drums. He performed in various groups ranging from drum corp., classical percussion, big band and jazz combos, world percussion for modern dance, and film scoring. He then turned his focus to film sound.

Starting as an assistant and then sound editor on such films as Die Hard (1988), Star Trek V: The Final Frontier (1989), Beauty and the Beast (1991), and Total Recall (1990), he moved on to become an Oscar-winning re-recording mixer. Working with directors like Quentin Tarantino, Michael Mann, Denis Villeneuve, Ang Lee, Peter Weir, and Cameron Crowe. He received Oscar and Bafta nominations for Life of Pi (2012) and Blade Runner 2049 (2017) and two Oscar and BAFTA wins for Dune: Part 1 (2021) and Dune: Part 2 (2024).

About Doug Hemphill:

Doug Hemphill comes to film sound from a background in psychology and music. He attended the USC School of Cinema and was hired while still a student to work on Apocalypse Now (1979). After several projects in the Bay Area, Doug moved to Los Angeles to work on the film Gremlins (1984) as a sound effects field recordist, a job he feels combines much of what he learned through psychology and music. His break as a re-recording mixer came from fellow Texan Willie Nelson. After learning that Doug’s family had been farmers in the Rio Grande Valley, Nelson offered him a job mixing on his film The Red Headed Stranger (1986). Doug has won several awards for his work: Oscars, BAFTAs, and Cinema Audio Society awards among them. He is most proud of being able to give his mother his first Oscar and of being a dad to his two children, Kathryn Rose and William.

The Education and Public Engagement team invites visitors to explore Cyberpunk: Envisioning Possible Futures Through Cinema, the exhibition that examines the global impact and lasting influence of the science fiction subgenre cyberpunk on cinema culture. Cyberpunk features 18 reproductions of iconic cyberpunk movie posters, an original costume from Tron (USA, 1982), 13 props, the original Vid-Phon booth from Blade Runner (USA, 1982), and concept art from celebrated films like Blade Runner, Tron, and Night Raiders (2021).

Gallery Spotlights

During Gallery Spotlights, the Education and Public Engagement team invites visitors to explore Stories of Cinema, the Academy Museum’s ongoing core exhibition that presents the diverse, international, and complex stories of moviemakers and the works they create.

Prepare for the screening of Solaris (2002) with a conversation and demonstration from the film score’s composer, Cliff Martinez.

Special guests representing community partners of the museum and a curator of Jaws: The Exhibition will discuss the impact of Jaws on sharks, science, the influence of blockbusters, and more. 

Join us in conversation with Senior Exhibitions Curator Jenny He and Assistant Curator Emily Rauber Rodriguez as they discuss Jaws: The Exhibition, the newest and first-ever exhibition of this scale dedicated to a single film at the Academy Museum. The conversation will explore the development and curation of the exhibition that revisits Jaws (1975) scene by scene, featuring original objects, behind-the-scenes revelations, and interactive moments. This conversation will be moderated by author and professor J.D. Connor

Curator Bios

Jenny He is Senior Exhibitions Curator at the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures. Since 2021, she has curated exhibitions on John Waters, Pedro Almodóvar, Hildur Guðnadóttir, animation filmmakers, special and visual effects artists, and other subjects for the museum. Previously, she independently curated and toured The World of Tim  Burton  to worldwide institutions, after co-curating the retrospective exhibition Tim Burton at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, which toured to venues such as LACMA, Cinémathèque Française, and the Australian Centre for the Moving Image. For MoMA, among other exhibitions, Jenny has curated retrospectives on the Coen Brothers, Lillian Gish, and Kathryn Bigelow.

Emily Rauber Rodriguez is an Assistant Curator at the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures and has contributed to the exhibitions Regeneration: Black Cinema 1898-1971, John Waters: Pope of Trash, and Cyberpunk: Envisioning Possible Futures Through Cinema. She holds doctoral and master’s degrees in Cinema and Media Studies from the University of Southern California. Her scholarly work focuses on race and ethnicity in speculative fiction.

About Gallery Spotlights

During Gallery Spotlights, the Education and Public Engagement team invites visitors to explore the Academy Museum’s ongoing exhibitions that presents the diverse, international, and complex stories of moviemakers and the works they create. If you have any questions or need assistance planning your visit, please email museumeducation@oscars.org.

Cyberpunk films juxtapose technological advances with social upheaval, ecological crisis, and urban decay. Central to these stories are characters who fight against technology gone haywire, global mega-corporations, or colonialism.   

Join the Academy Museum with director and filmmaker Ngozi Onwurah as she discusses the history and impact of Afrofuturism within the cyberpunk genre. They will also discuss the making of Ngozi Onwurah’s first feature, Welcome II the Terrordome (1995), the first theatrically distributed British feature directed by a Black woman.  

About Gallery Spotlights

During Gallery Spotlights, the Education and Public Engagement team invites visitors to explore the Academy Museum’s ongoing exhibitions that presents the diverse, international, and complex stories of moviemakers and the works they create. If you have any questions or need assistance planning your visit, please email museumeducation@oscars.org.

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

Experience summer’s golden hour high above the city on the Academy Museum’s Dolby Family Terrace, with live DJ sets and a refreshing Fanny’s cocktail in hand, every Saturday afternoon this summer.

Spend your summer evenings with us at the Academy Museum. Visit after 4:30pm and get a discount on museum admission for the last 90 minutes.

The Academy Museum Teen Council presents Study the Past, Create the Future! Teen Short Film Showcase, celebrating the creativity of teen filmmakers in Los Angeles.

To celebrate the Academy Museum’s fourth anniversary, we are offering complimentary general admission on September 28, 2025. 

Calling all witches, ghosts, and ghouls! Join the Academy Museum for a wicked good time. The museum will host a fun-filled day of special effects makeup demonstrations, storied tours, special monster appearances, and activities exploring the monstrous feminine. Embrace this year’ theme with the bride, witches, vampires, and more!

Free with the purchase of a general admission ticket. Museum admission is free for youths 17 and under.

Schedule  

9am | Calm Morning: The Bride of Frankenstein’s Sound Lab

11am Accessible Screening | Family Matinee

90th anniversary of Bride of Frankenstein (1935)

Location: David Geffen Theater

Separate ticketed event

11am–1:30pm | Special Effects Makeup and Hair Demonstration

Location: Sidney Poitier Grand Lobby | L1

Join us for a scary good time with special effects transformations by special effects makeup artist Gabi Gonzalez, Academy Award®-winner Howard Berger, and Academy Award®-winner Yolanda Toussieng.

General admission ticket not required.

2pm | Screening

The Love Witch (2016)

Location: David Geffen Theater

Separate ticketed event

2:30pm-5:00pm | Tarot, Palm Reading and the Stars | Ted Mann Lobby

Embrace your past, present, and future and delight in a fun tarot and palm reading.

12:30, 1:30pm 3:00pm, 4:00pm | Monster Meet and Greet

Location: Sidney Poitier Grand Lobby | L1

Come meet Universal Studios classic movie monsters the Bride of Frankenstein and Frankenstein for a special photo opportunity. It’ll be a scream.

General admission ticket not required.

Noon–4 pm | Scripted Frights Tours

Location: L2

Explore scripts, storyboards, and highlighted objects that explore mysteries, horror, and thrills with a museum educator for a 30-minute guided tour of the Story gallery and Director’s Inspiration: Bong Joon Ho gallery.

Among shadowy galleries, examine the scripts of Hitchcock’s Rebecca (1940) which was inspired from Daphne Du Maurier’s suspenseful 1938 mystery novel, view the seemingly normal typewriter that birthed the haunting script of Psycho (1960), and explore the monstrous creature design and storyboards of Bong Joon Ho’s The Host (2011).

Tours will meet on Level 2 at *Noon, 1pm, 3pm and 4pm.

*Noon tour will be accompanied with ASL interpretation

Tours have limited space and are first-come, first-served. Please arrive at the meeting place on Level 3 up to 10 minutes before the start of the tour to secure your spot.    

3pm-5pm - Scream Queens: Voice Acting Drop-in Workshop | Education Studio

Open to all ages! Become a Scream Queen and join us in the Shirley Temple Education Studio for a frightful but laugh-out-loud voice acting workshop where you jump into some of your favorite monstrous feminine films.

7:30pm Screening

Jennifer’s Body (2019)

Location: David Geffen Theater

Separate ticketed event

Screenings

Purchase tickets for Bride of Frankenstein (1935).

Purchase tickets for The Love Witch (2016).

Purchase tickets for Jennifer’s Body (2009).

On the last Friday of every month, a Visual Description Tour within the museum’s Stories of Cinema exhibition, or additional galleries, will be offered at 2pm to align with our ongoing Stories of Cinema Drop-In Tours, which are offered every Friday from 1pm to 3pm.  

An educator will provide a verbal overview for visitors who are blind or low vision. Visual Description is a way of using words to represent the visual world, of helping people form mental images of what they cannot see. All are welcome to join this gallery conversation. 

American Sign Language (ASL) tours are always offered on the same day as our monthly Calm Morning program and accommodative Family Matinee film screening. Stories of Cinema galleries will be featured on tours at noon. Join a museum educator and ASL interpreter to experience cinema’s wide-ranging contributions to the world.

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

Join educators as they highlight the Barbie to Anna Karenina exhibition.  

Join curatorial staff and explore the Cyberpunk: Envisioning Possible Futures Through Cinema exhibition.

Join us for sensory-friendly gallery exploration and a family workshop inspired by the accessible screening of Jungle Cruise (2021).

Join us for exclusive member previews of Jaws: The Exhibition on Friday, September 12, and Saturday, September 13, from 10am to 6pm.

Join curatorial staff and explore the Barbie to Anna Karenina: The Cinematic Worlds of Sarah Greenwood and Katie Spencer exhibition. 

Join museum educators Thursdays through Sundays for 30-minute guided tours of the Jaws: The Exhibition.

Join museum educators on the first Saturday of the month for a 30-minute guided bilingual tour of the Jaws: The Exhibition.

Join curatorial staff and explore the Significant Movies and Moviemakers: Lourdes Portillo exhibition.

Join curatorial staff and explore the Significant Movies and Moviemakers: Casablanca exhibition.

Join us in the Shirley Temple Education Studio to create your own miniature props!

Join us for a concept art workshop in the Shirley Temple Education Studio.

Join us in the Shirley Temple Education Studio to create your own ofrenda.