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
Visual Description Tours
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.
Accessibility Programs
ASL Interpreted Tours
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.
Accessibility Programs
Calm Morning: The Wizard of Oz
Join us for sensory-friendly gallery exploration and a family workshop inspired by the accessible screening of The Wizard of Oz (1939).
Tour
Calm Morning: The Bride of Frankenstein’s Sound Lab
Join us for sensory-friendly gallery exploration and a family workshop inspired by the accessible screening of Bride of Frankenstein (1935).
Kids & Families
Workshops
Drop-In Workshop for Families: Haunted Prop-Making
Join us in the Shirley Temple Education Studio to learn about the eerie art of creating props for haunted-house films.
Special Events
Monster Mash
Calling all ghosts and ghouls! Join the Academy Museum for a wicked good time. We're hosting a fun-filled day of special-effects makeup demonstrations, spooky scripted tours, appearances by (gasp!) monsters, and activities—all exploring the crossroads between the monstrous and the feminine in film. Embrace this year’s theme with the bride of Frankenstein, lovelorn witches, hungry demons, and more.
Free with the purchase of a general admission ticket. Museum admission is free for youths 17 and under.
Schedule
9am | Calm Morning: Bride of Frankenstein Sound Lab
11am | Accessible Screening | Family Matinee | 90th Anniversary of Bride of Frankenstein (1935)
Location: David Geffen Theater
Separately ticketed event
The sequel to Frankenstein (1931) finds The Monster (Boris Karloff) demanding that Dr. Frankenstein (Colin Clive) build him a companion. Elsa Lanchester’s “bride,” with her singular shock of white-streaked hair, has become one of movie history’s most recognizable characters.
11am–1:30pm | Special-Effects Makeup and Hair Demonstration
Location: Sidney Poitier Grand Lobby | L1
General admission ticket not required
Join us for a scary good time with transformations by special effects makeup artist Gabi Gonzalez, Academy Award®-winner Howard Berger, and Academy Award®-winner Yolanda Toussieng.
2:30pm | Screening | The Love Witch in 35mm (2016) with filmmaker Anna Biller
Location: Ted Mann Theater
Separately ticketed event
Beautiful young witch Elaine (Samantha Robinson) moves into a gothic Victorian apartment in Northern California. With a deep desire for an idealized romance, Elaine concocts love potions to attract unsuspecting townsmen, creating disruption in the area. When Elaine finally meets the man of her dreams, will he fall prey to her enchantments?
2:30–5pm | Tarot, Palm Reading, and the Stars
Location: Ted Mann Lobby
Embrace your past, present, and future in a fun tarot card and palm reading.
12:30, 1:30, 3, 4pm | Monster Meet and Greet
Location: Sidney Poitier Grand Lobby | L1
General admission ticket not required.
Come meet Universal Studios' classic movie monsters—the Bride of Frankenstein and Frankenstein's monster—for a can't-miss photo opportunity. It’ll be a scream.
Noon–4pm | Scripted Fright Tours
Location: L2
Tours will meet on Level 2 at *Noon, 1, 3 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 2 up to 10 minutes before the start time to secure your spot.
Explore our museum's mysteries, horrors, and thrills—if you dare. A museum educator will lead you on an eerie, 30-minute tour of the Story gallery and Director’s Inspiration: Bong Joon Ho exhibition. Among shadowy galleries, examine the scripts of Hitchcock’s Rebecca (1940) inspired by Daphne Du Maurier’s suspenseful 1938 mystery novel. Take a peek at the seemingly normal typewriter that birthed the haunting script for Psycho (1960), and explore the monstrous creature design and storyboards of Bong Joon Ho’s The Host (2011).
3pm | Scream Queens: Voice-Acting Drop-in Workshop
Location: Shirley Temple Education Studio
Open to all ages
Do you have what it takes to be a scream queen? Join us for a frightful but laugh-out-loud voice acting workshop where you jump into some of your favorite, feminine-forward horror films.
7:30pm | Screening | Jennifer’s Body (2019) with filmmaker Karyn Kusama
Location: David Geffen Theater
Separately ticketed event
A demon takes possession of popular, beautiful high schooler Jennifer Check (Megan Fox), spurring her to seduce and feast on hapless male classmates. It is up to her timid best friend, Needy Lesnicki (Amanda Seyfried), to put an end to Jennifer’s bloody spree before it’s too late.
Screenings
Purchase tickets for Bride of Frankenstein (1935).
Purchase tickets for The Love Witch (2016).
Purchase tickets for Jennifer’s Body (2009).
Workshops
Drop-in Workshop for Families: Día de Muertos and Ofrendas
Join us in the Shirley Temple Education Studio to create your own ofrenda.
Teens
Check back soon for upcoming programs or see What's On Today
Programming Series
Drop-In Workshops for Teens
Join Academy Museum educators for drop-in workshop activities for teens. We meet the third Friday of every month to create, learn, 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!
Conversations
Conversations
Gallery Spotlight: Diving into Jaws: The Exhibition
Join us in conversation with Senior Exhibitions Curator Jenny He and Curatorial Assistant Alexandra James Salichs as they discuss Jaws: The Exhibition, the newest and first-ever production 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.
Alexandra James Salichs is a curatorial assistant at the Academy Museum. Her most recent contributions as a curatorial assistant are Barbie to Anna Karenina: The Cinematic Worlds of Sarah Greenwood and Katie Spencer and Jaws: The Exhibition. As a research assistant, she worked on Color in Motion: Chromatic Explorations of Cinema and its exhibition catalog. Prior to joining the Academy Museum, she worked as an intern at the Museum of Modern Art, Hamptons International Film Festival, Tribeca Film Festival. She also co-programmed screenings at Columbia University and Amherst College. She holds a bachelor's and master's degree in Film and Media Studies from Amherst College and Columbia University.
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.
Conversations
Gallery Spotlight: The Terrordome and Afrofuturism with Ngozi Onwurah
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.
The conversation will be moderated by actor, educator, and futurist Ahmed Best.
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.
Special Events
Sips on the Terrace
Experience LA's golden hour high above the city on the Academy Museum’s Dolby Family Terrace, with a refreshing Fanny’s cocktail in hand, every Saturday afternoon.
Dolby Family Terrace
Special Events
Last Looks at the Academy Museum
Spend your evenings with us at the Academy Museum. Visit after 4:30pm and get a discount on museum admission for the last 90 minutes.
Special Events
Academy Museum Anniversary Free Day 2025
To celebrate the Academy Museum’s fourth anniversary, visit us for free on September 28, 2025.
Special Events
Member Appreciation Day
Join us for Member Appreciation Days on the first Sunday of every month from 5:30–8pm.
Book Signings
Making Monsters Book Signing With Authors Howard Berger and Marshall Julius, Plus Special Guests
Academy Award-winning makeup artist Howard Berger and journalist Marshall Julius will sign their new book, Making Monsters: Inside Stories from the Creators of Hollywood’s Most Iconic Creatures.
Special Events
Monster Mash
Calling all ghosts and ghouls! Join the Academy Museum for a wicked good time. We're hosting a fun-filled day of special-effects makeup demonstrations, spooky scripted tours, appearances by (gasp!) monsters, and activities—all exploring the crossroads between the monstrous and the feminine in film. Embrace this year’s theme with the bride of Frankenstein, lovelorn witches, hungry demons, and more.
Free with the purchase of a general admission ticket. Museum admission is free for youths 17 and under.
Schedule
9am | Calm Morning: Bride of Frankenstein Sound Lab
11am | Accessible Screening | Family Matinee | 90th Anniversary of Bride of Frankenstein (1935)
Location: David Geffen Theater
Separately ticketed event
The sequel to Frankenstein (1931) finds The Monster (Boris Karloff) demanding that Dr. Frankenstein (Colin Clive) build him a companion. Elsa Lanchester’s “bride,” with her singular shock of white-streaked hair, has become one of movie history’s most recognizable characters.
11am–1:30pm | Special-Effects Makeup and Hair Demonstration
Location: Sidney Poitier Grand Lobby | L1
General admission ticket not required
Join us for a scary good time with transformations by special effects makeup artist Gabi Gonzalez, Academy Award®-winner Howard Berger, and Academy Award®-winner Yolanda Toussieng.
2:30pm | Screening | The Love Witch in 35mm (2016) with filmmaker Anna Biller
Location: Ted Mann Theater
Separately ticketed event
Beautiful young witch Elaine (Samantha Robinson) moves into a gothic Victorian apartment in Northern California. With a deep desire for an idealized romance, Elaine concocts love potions to attract unsuspecting townsmen, creating disruption in the area. When Elaine finally meets the man of her dreams, will he fall prey to her enchantments?
2:30–5pm | Tarot, Palm Reading, and the Stars
Location: Ted Mann Lobby
Embrace your past, present, and future in a fun tarot card and palm reading.
12:30, 1:30, 3, 4pm | Monster Meet and Greet
Location: Sidney Poitier Grand Lobby | L1
General admission ticket not required.
Come meet Universal Studios' classic movie monsters—the Bride of Frankenstein and Frankenstein's monster—for a can't-miss photo opportunity. It’ll be a scream.
Noon–4pm | Scripted Fright Tours
Location: L2
Tours will meet on Level 2 at *Noon, 1, 3 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 2 up to 10 minutes before the start time to secure your spot.
Explore our museum's mysteries, horrors, and thrills—if you dare. A museum educator will lead you on an eerie, 30-minute tour of the Story gallery and Director’s Inspiration: Bong Joon Ho exhibition. Among shadowy galleries, examine the scripts of Hitchcock’s Rebecca (1940) inspired by Daphne Du Maurier’s suspenseful 1938 mystery novel. Take a peek at the seemingly normal typewriter that birthed the haunting script for Psycho (1960), and explore the monstrous creature design and storyboards of Bong Joon Ho’s The Host (2011).
3pm | Scream Queens: Voice-Acting Drop-in Workshop
Location: Shirley Temple Education Studio
Open to all ages
Do you have what it takes to be a scream queen? Join us for a frightful but laugh-out-loud voice acting workshop where you jump into some of your favorite, feminine-forward horror films.
7:30pm | Screening | Jennifer’s Body (2019) with filmmaker Karyn Kusama
Location: David Geffen Theater
Separately ticketed event
A demon takes possession of popular, beautiful high schooler Jennifer Check (Megan Fox), spurring her to seduce and feast on hapless male classmates. It is up to her timid best friend, Needy Lesnicki (Amanda Seyfried), to put an end to Jennifer’s bloody spree before it’s too late.
Screenings
Purchase tickets for Bride of Frankenstein (1935).
Purchase tickets for The Love Witch (2016).
Purchase tickets for Jennifer’s Body (2009).
Special Events
Academy Museum x Cinephile: Movie Trivia Night
Join us for movie trivia at the Academy Museum. The night’s theme is all things horror, thriller, and slasher. For museum members only.
Book Signings
John Williams: A Composer's Life Book Signing with Author Tim Greiving
Author Tim Greiving will sign his book, John Williams: A Composer’s Life
Accessibility Programs
Visual Description Tours
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.
Accessibility Programs
ASL Interpreted Tours
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.
Tours
Close-Up Tours: Bong Joon Ho
Join educators as they highlight the Director’s Inspiration: Bong Joon Ho exhibition.
Tours
Close-Up Tours: Barbie to Anna Karenina
Join educators as they highlight the Barbie to Anna Karenina exhibition.
Accessibility Programs
Calm Morning: The Wizard of Oz
Join us for sensory-friendly gallery exploration and a family workshop inspired by the accessible screening of The Wizard of Oz (1939).
Tours
Jaws: The Tour (En Español) | Tiburón: la recorrido
Join museum educators on the first Saturday of the month for a 30-minute guided bilingual tour of the Jaws: The Exhibition.
Tours
Jaws: The Tour
Join museum educators Thursdays through Sundays for 30-minute guided tours of the Jaws: The Exhibition.
Tours
Curator's View Tours: Lourdes Portillo
Join curatorial staff and explore the Significant Movies and Moviemakers: Lourdes Portillo exhibition.
Tour
Calm Morning: The Bride of Frankenstein’s Sound Lab
Join us for sensory-friendly gallery exploration and a family workshop inspired by the accessible screening of Bride of Frankenstein (1935).
Tours
Curator's View Tours: Casablanca
Join curatorial staff and explore the Significant Movies and Moviemakers: Casablanca exhibition.
Workshops
Workshops
Drop-In Workshop for Families: Haunted Prop-Making
Join us in the Shirley Temple Education Studio to learn about the eerie art of creating props for haunted-house films.
Workshops
Drop-in Workshop for Families: Día de Muertos and Ofrendas
Join us in the Shirley Temple Education Studio to create your own ofrenda.