Developing a New Core Exhibition for Museum of the Moving Image

FAIN: GE-293317-23

Museum of the Moving Image (Astoria, NY 11106-1226)
Barbara Miller (Project Director: January 2023 to present)

Development of a permanent exhibition exploring how people create and engage with the moving image.

Museum of the Moving Image (MoMI) respectfully requests a $75,000 exhibition planning grant to develop a major new core exhibition, to be on view for a decade, that explores how people create and engage with the moving image, defined as film, television, videogames, social media, and other forms of digital media. Located on two floors of gallery space comprising 13,000 square feet, the new core exhibition will address major changes in our subject matter over the past three decades, and take advantage of contemporary approaches to exhibition design and interactivity that consider the differently-abled. Drawing on the Museum’s extensive material culture collection, and including interactive experiences and moving image content, it will explore the practices of inventors, makers, industry leaders, artists, audiences, and collectors, and examine key historical milestones, with technical innovations a major point of major interest.