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 Frozen (2013). ASL interpretation will be provided.

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

Join us for sensory-friendly gallery exploration and a family workshop inspired by the accessible screening of Frozen (2013). ASL interpretation will be provided.

Enjoy a free screening of short personal films and a discussion with the 2025 cohort of the Promise Workshops.

Join us for a teen workshop on documentary filmmaking in the Shirley Temple Education Studio.

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.

Join us in conversation with Tonantzin Carmelo and Bird Runningwater as they discuss their experiences as a Native artists and cultural advocates for authentic Indigenous representation and going beyond land acknowledgements.

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.

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.

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

Author Tim Greiving will sign his book, John Williams: A Composer’s Life

Meet film critic and author Kenneth Turan and get a signed copy of his book, Louis B. Mayer and Irving Thalberg: The Whole Equation

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 Significant Movies and Moviemakers: Casablanca gallery.

Join us for sensory-friendly gallery exploration and a family workshop inspired by the accessible screening of Frozen (2013). ASL interpretation will be provided.

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

Enjoy a free screening of short personal films and a discussion with the 2025 cohort of the Promise Workshops.

Join us for a teen workshop on documentary filmmaking in the Shirley Temple Education Studio.