On the last Friday of every month at 2pm, a museum educator offers a visual description tour in a select exhibition.

This 30-minute verbal overview, crafted for visitors who are blind or low vision, is a way of using words to represent the visual world, helping people form mental images of what they cannot see. All are welcome to join this gallery conversation. 

If you are interested in learning more, or would like to book an individual visual description tour, please email us at museumeducation@oscars.org.

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

If you are interested in learning more, please email us at museumeducation@oscars.org.

Visit the Shirley Temple Education Studio on the Lower Level for a movie-poster-making workshop inspired by this season's Family Matinees and today’s delightfully wacky, accessible screening of Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein.

Bid farewell to Barbie to Anna Karenina: The Cinematic Worlds of Sarah Greenwood and Katie Spencer exhibition with Academy member and set decorator Jan Pascale.

In honor of Latinx Heritage Month, this month's Drop-In Workshop for Families is exploring the surreal world of alebrijes.

Calling all creatures of the night: join the Academy Museum for a fang-tastic day exploring the vampire, the most famous creature of the dark, with special-effects demos, thrilling tours, monster appearances, and more.

Discover your own personal Calavera Catrina in this family-friendly workshop hosted by special guest author Mariana Galvez.

Get inspired by the new exhibition The Horror Show and learn the basics of editing for film. Then create your own terrifying movie trailer using clips from scary films. Discover how to spellbind an audience and build suspense solely through the art and science of selective cuts, using editing software and tried-and-true Hollywood techniques.

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

About Drop-in Workshops for Teens

Teens can join our Education team on the third Friday of every month to explore the museum, hang out, and get creative.

Frightfully talented special effects supervisor Tom Bellissimo takes museum visitors behind the scenes of some of his best-known work, including designs for Saw (2004), From Dusk Till Dawn (1996), and The Mask (1994).

Bid farewell to Barbie to Anna Karenina: The Cinematic Worlds of Sarah Greenwood and Katie Spencer exhibition with Academy member and set decorator Jan Pascale.

Go behind the scenes of this frightfully engaging exhibition with three of our experts.

Drag legend Peaches Christ and scholar Dr. Heather O. Petrocelli star in Queer for Fear Live!, a show that blends scholarly analysis with stage performance.

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.

Experience LA's golden hour high above the city on the Academy Museum’s Dolby Family Terrace, with a tasty snack and a refreshing Fanny’s cocktail in hand, on Saturday afternoons.

Ready to roll? The Skate Hunnies are bringing a night of skating, music and more to the Academy Museum. And it's free.

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

Calling all creatures of the night: join the Academy Museum for a fang-tastic day exploring the vampire, the most famous creature of the dark, with special-effects demos, thrilling tours, monster appearances, and more.

Museum members test their expertise during a lively evening of movie trivia. The next theme: Halloween-season favorites.

Celebrate Halloween at the Academy Museum with a goth-themed after-hours party: cocktails, tarot readings, a special guest, and a screening of The Craft (1996).

Drag legend Peaches Christ and scholar Dr. Heather O. Petrocelli star in Queer for Fear Live!, a show that blends scholarly analysis with stage performance.

On the last Friday of every month at 2pm, a museum educator offers a visual description tour in a select exhibition.

This 30-minute verbal overview, crafted for visitors who are blind or low vision, is a way of using words to represent the visual world, helping people form mental images of what they cannot see. All are welcome to join this gallery conversation. 

If you are interested in learning more, or would like to book an individual visual description tour, please email us at museumeducation@oscars.org.

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

If you are interested in learning more, please email us at museumeducation@oscars.org.

Museum educators lead 30-minute guided tours exploring the career of Hollywood icon Marilyn Monroe. Through her films, costumes and more, this exhibition, titled Marilyn Monroe: Hollywood Icon, uncovers the woman behind the carefully crafted image.

Tour guides use voice amplifiers to enhance sound accessibility.

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

Bilingual museum educators lead 30-minute guided tours exploring the career of Hollywood icon Marilyn Monroe. Through her films, costumes and more, this exhibition, titled Marilyn Monroe: Hollywood Icon, uncovers the woman behind the carefully crafted image.

Tour guides use voice amplifiers to enhance sound accessibility.

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

Visit the Shirley Temple Education Studio on the Lower Level for a movie-poster-making workshop inspired by this season's Family Matinees and today’s delightfully wacky, accessible screening of Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein.

Bid farewell to Barbie to Anna Karenina: The Cinematic Worlds of Sarah Greenwood and Katie Spencer exhibition with Academy member and set decorator Jan Pascale.

Curatorial staff offers a farewell exploration of Barbie to Anna Karenina: The Cinematic Worlds of Sarah Greenwood and Katie Spencer.

Join museum educators Thursdays through Sundays for 30-minute guided tours of the The Horror Show—if you dare.

Go behind the scenes—and beyond the grave—of our new Zombies! exhibition with Curatorial Assistant Alexandra James Salichs.

Join bilingual museum educators on Saturdays for 30-minute guided tours of the The Horror Show—if you dare.

Visit the Shirley Temple Education Studio on the Lower Level for a movie-poster-making workshop inspired by this season's Family Matinees and today’s delightfully wacky, accessible screening of Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein.

In honor of Latinx Heritage Month, this month's Drop-In Workshop for Families is exploring the surreal world of alebrijes.

Discover your own personal Calavera Catrina in this family-friendly workshop hosted by special guest author Mariana Galvez.

Get inspired by the new exhibition The Horror Show and learn the basics of editing for film. Then create your own terrifying movie trailer using clips from scary films. Discover how to spellbind an audience and build suspense solely through the art and science of selective cuts, using editing software and tried-and-true Hollywood techniques.

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

About Drop-in Workshops for Teens

Teens can join our Education team on the third Friday of every month to explore the museum, hang out, and get creative.