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.

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.

Relax with a sensory-friendly gallery exploration and try a family costume design workshop in honor of Disability Pride Month.

Discover cherished works in museum exhibitions through carefully curated walkthroughs with experienced guides. 

Inspired by this season’s caper-filled family matinee series, families can create mood- and storyboards to visualize their own tales of mystery.

A workshop inspired by the fun, innovative gadgets of Spy Kids (2001)

Relax with a sensory-friendly gallery exploration and try a family costume design workshop in honor of Disability Pride Month.

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.

Create a puppet designed especially for stop-motion storytelling in a workshop designed by a professional Hollywood animator.

Salute the next generation of Los Angeles filmmakers at the Academy Museum. The Academy Museum Tea Room hosts a screening of short films selected by the museum’s Teen Council, who challenged their peers to create a short film highlighting an aspect in their community they feel passionate about, or that they feel needs attention.

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

Watch a live painting demonstration by a Studio Ghibli artist and see how the makers of the Ponyo (2008), The Boy and the Heron (2023), and other beloved films create such beautifully crafted scenery. Studio Ghibli background artist and Yoichi Nishikawa, known as “the painter of clouds,” speaks with Academy Museum Senior Exhibitions Curator Jessica Niebel before offering a rare, in-person look at his watercolor technique.

Journalist, author, and disability advocate Kristen Lopez signs copies of her book, Popcorn Disabilities: The Highs and Lows of Disabled Representation in the Movies.

Three-time Academy Award winner Ve Neill (Ed Wood, 1994 and Mrs. Doubtfire, 1993) explores the secrets behind Hollywood’s most memorable character looks. She also highlights the design of dark and macabre characters from Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007), currently on display in the Identity gallery.

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 refreshing Fanny’s cocktail in hand, on Saturday afternoons.

In celebration of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), the history-making civil rights law introduced in July 1990, the Academy Museum presents a day of short films, tours, and a live performance, all to bring awareness to disability, representation, and accessibility in Film.

The program is free with your general admission ticket. Access to the shorts screening, tours, and performance is included. American Sign Language (ASL) interpretation will be available throughout the day.

Schedule

9–10am | Calm Mornings program | Early gallery access | L4, Marilyn and Jeffrey Katzenberg Gallery

• Sound and lighting adjustments provide a more sensory-friendly experience. Separate ticket required.

10am–1pm | Calm Mornings program | Family workshop | LL1, Shirley Temple Education Studio

• In addition to the Calm Mornings program, we encourage visitors to attend our Accessible Screening, part of the weekly Family Matinees series, at 11am. A separate admission ticket is required. The Shirley Temple Education Studio will remain open during the screening as a space for relaxation and artmaking until 1pm.

10am-5pm | Disabilities, Representation, and Film Sensory Session | LL1, TMT Lobby

• Explore moviemaking at the Academy Museum through a drop-in, sensory-friendly experience. Examine movie props and other objects through touch as well as a speaker that allows visitors to feel mechanical vibrations from sound.

11am | Short films by neurodivergent filmmakers | Accessible screening | David Geffen Theater

Three short films by neurodivergent filmmakers from the Easterseals Disability Film Challenge and Marvels of Media. Screening will be followed by a Q&A with the filmmakers. A sensory-friendly screening with open captions, dimmed lights, and lower volume for neurodivergent viewers. Free with general admission.

• Breaking Normal | DIRECTED BY: Jessica Cabot | WRITTEN BY: Nicole Betz | WITH: Tal Anderson, Anthony Purnell, Vickie Anderson | 2024 | 6 min. | USA | Color | English | DCP

• The Question | DIRECTED/WRITTEN BY: Coby Bird | WITH: Coby Bird | 2023 | 4 min. | USA | Color | English | DCP

• The Fish Don't Care When It Rains | DIRECTED/WRITTEN BY: Jennifer Msumba | WITH: Jennifer Msumba | 2020 | 5 min. | USA | Color | English | DCP

Noon | ASL Interpreted Tour | Studio Ghibli’s PONYO | L2, Wanda Gallery

• A museum educator and ASL interpreter lead a tour of our Studio Ghibli’s PONYO exhibition. Free with general admission.

12:30pm | Jaws: The Tour (En Español) - Tiburón: la recorrido | L4, Marilyn and Jeffrey Katzenberg Gallery

• Museum educators offer a 30-minute guided bilingual tour of Jaws: The Exhibition. Free with general admission.

1pm | Live performance | Jazz Hands for Autism | L1, Sidney Poitier Grand Lobby

• Jazz Hands For Autism joins us for a live performance. JHFA provides music education, performance, and employment opportunities for musicians on the autism spectrum. It has secured more than 200 job placements and engaged more than 15,000 people through live, virtual, and hybrid performances. Most recently, a JHFA concert featured the music of Philip Bailey of Earth, Wind and Fire, featuring an appearance by Bailey himself. General admission ticket not required.

1:30pm, 2:30pm, and 3:30pm | Jaws: The Tour | L4, Marilyn and Jeffrey Katzenberg Gallery

• A 30-minute guided tour of Jaws: The Exhibition, exploring the blockbuster through original objects, costumes, and additional production materials. Free with general admission.

2pm | Visual Description Tour | Studio Ghibli’s PONYO | L2, Wanda Gallery

• A museum educator hosts a visual description tour of the Studio Ghibli’s PONYO exhibition. Free with general admission.

Watch a live painting demonstration by a Studio Ghibli artist and see how the makers of the Ponyo (2008), The Boy and the Heron (2023), and other beloved films create such beautifully crafted scenery. Studio Ghibli background artist and Yoichi Nishikawa, known as “the painter of clouds,” speaks with Academy Museum Senior Exhibitions Curator Jessica Niebel before offering a rare, in-person look at his watercolor technique.

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

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

Journalist, author, and disability advocate Kristen Lopez signs copies of her book, Popcorn Disabilities: The Highs and Lows of Disabled Representation in the Movies.

Salute the next generation of Los Angeles filmmakers at the Academy Museum. The Academy Museum Tea Room hosts a screening of short films selected by the museum’s Teen Council, who challenged their peers to create a short film highlighting an aspect in their community they feel passionate about, or that they feel needs attention.

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

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.

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).

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

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.

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.

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

Discover cherished works in museum exhibitions through carefully curated walkthroughs with experienced guides. 

Museum educators offer a deep dive into the fascinating history of the Hollywood studio system.

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.

Production sound mixer and Academy Governor Peter Devlin gives a 30-minute tour examining the art and science of sound mixing in film. He also explores the sounds of the adventure classic Jaws (1975), from its realistic and natural sounds to its unforgettable score.

Stay for a brief Q&A with Devlin after the tour.

Dive beneath the surface and behind the scenes of Jaws (1975) and Jaws: The Exhibition with Jenny He, senior exhibitions curator.

Relax with a sensory-friendly gallery exploration and try a family costume design workshop in honor of Disability Pride Month.

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.

Visual effects supervisor and Academy Governor Andrew Roberts gives a 30-minute tour, revealing the ways visual effects can create or enhance on-screen creatures. The tour also features visual-effects creatures in notable Bong Joon Ho films: The Host (2006) and Mickey 17 (2025).

Stay for a brief Q&A with Roberts after the tour.

Inspired by this season’s caper-filled family matinee series, families can create mood- and storyboards to visualize their own tales of mystery.

Create a puppet designed especially for stop-motion storytelling in a workshop designed by a professional Hollywood animator.

A workshop inspired by the fun, innovative gadgets of Spy Kids (2001)

Relax with a sensory-friendly gallery exploration and try a family costume design workshop in honor of Disability Pride Month.

Watch a live painting demonstration by a Studio Ghibli artist and see how the makers of the Ponyo (2008), The Boy and the Heron (2023), and other beloved films create such beautifully crafted scenery. Studio Ghibli background artist and Yoichi Nishikawa, known as “the painter of clouds,” speaks with Academy Museum Senior Exhibitions Curator Jessica Niebel before offering a rare, in-person look at his watercolor technique.