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 The Wizard of Oz (1939).

Join us for sensory-friendly gallery exploration and a family workshop inspired by the accessible screening of Bride of Frankenstein (1935).

Join us in the Shirley Temple Education Studio to explore the art of musicals. 

Join us in the Tea Room (on L5) for a drawing demonstration inspired by the Disney Pixar film Toy Story (1995). 

Join us in the Shirley Temple Education Studio to learn about the eerie art of creating props for haunted-house films.

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).

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

Join us for a film scoring workshop in the Shirley Temple Education Studio.

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 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.

The Academy Museum welcomes actress Candy Clark and author Sam Sweet, who will sign copies of their book, Tight Heads.

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

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).

Academy Award-winning makeup artist and author Howard Berger will sign his new book, Making Monsters: Inside Stories from the Creators of Hollywood’s Most Iconic Creatures

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 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 us for sensory-friendly gallery exploration and a family workshop inspired by the accessible screening of The Wizard of Oz (1939).

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 us for sensory-friendly gallery exploration and a family workshop inspired by the accessible screening of Bride of Frankenstein (1935).

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

Join us in the Shirley Temple Education Studio to explore the art of musicals. 

Join us for a film scoring workshop in the Shirley Temple Education Studio.

Join us in the Tea Room (on L5) for a drawing demonstration inspired by the Disney Pixar film Toy Story (1995). 

Join us in the Shirley Temple Education Studio to learn about the eerie art of creating props for haunted-house films.

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