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# The Museum of the Moving Image Reopens With New Programming
- URL: https://hyperallergic.com/the-museum-of-the-moving-image-reopens-with-new-programming-2021/
- Published: 2021-04-27T20:02:00.000Z
- Updated: 2025-11-24T15:51:12.000Z
- Description: If you're comfortable sitting in a theater again, See It Big: The Return! presents movies that deserve to be watched on a big screen.
- Author: Dan Schindel
- Tags: Film, Events, Museum of the Moving Image, New York, Steven Spielberg, #wp, #wp-post, #image-position-hidden, #Import 2025-11-24 09:11 (2021, 2022, part 1)

After being closed for more than a year due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the [Museum of the Moving Image](http://www.movingimage.us/?ref=hyperallergic.com) is reopening on April 30\. The museum has used its shutdown time to upgrade its HVAC (heating, ventilation, and air conditioning) system, and has implemented [all necessary safety precautions for visitors](http://www.movingimage.us/visit/safety-2021?ref=hyperallergic.com). Exhibitions like [*Envisioning 2001*](https://hyperallergic.com/542692/envisioning-2001-stanley-kubrick-museum-of-the-moving-image/) will again be on view. The Redstone Theater is also reopening (at 25% capacity, of course) with a fresh roster of screening programs, including a revival of the museum's *See It Big!* series. [*See It Big: The Return!*](http://www.movingimage.us/programs/2021/05/01/detail/see-it-big-the-return/?ref=hyperallergic.com) hopes to entice patrons reticent about returning to a theater with movies that are worth watching on the biggest screen possible.

Titles include Alfred Hitchcock's classic psychological thriller *Vertigo* (1958), Steven Spielberg's sci-fi epic *A.I. Artificial Intelligence* (2001), and the Disney animated classical concert film *Fantasia* (1940). Tickets are $15 for general audiences, $11 for seniors and students, $9 for youths (those aged 3–17), or $7 for MoMI members. If you're comfortable with it, then any of these might make for a great first film back in a theater.

**When**: May 1–July 18  
**Where**: Museum of the Moving Image (36-01 35 Avenue, Astoria, Queens)

*More info at* [*MoMI*](http://www.movingimage.us/programs/2021/05/01/detail/see-it-big-the-return/?ref=hyperallergic.com)