Arts & Entertainment
Guests At Astoria's MoMI Can Make Their Own Animated Short Sept. 1
The Museum of the Moving Image will also have a media lab where people can make their own video game, according to a spokeswoman.
ASTORIA, NY — Next month, the Museum of the Moving Image is debuting a new exhibit titled “Behind the Screen: Life in Stop Motion.”
The exhibit, which opens Thursday, Sept.1, will allow visitors to make their own short animations using LAIKA characters.
“We are working on a function where people can send it to themselves,” said Tomoko Kawamoto, a spokeswoman for the museum.
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LAIKA is the animation studio that produced “Coraline,” “ParaNorman,” “Missing Link” and “The Boxtrolls” and “Kubo and the Two Strings,” Kawamoto told Patch.
People with a Cool Culture pass can see the exhibit and other general admission showcases for free, according to Kawamoto.
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“There is also a new media game lab that is going to be open to the public where people can drop in and learn how to make video games and other media,” Kawamoto said. “There is a whole museum of stuff that they can do.”
The museum is located at 36-01 35 Ave. in Astoria.
To get tickets and learn more about the exhibits at the museum visit movingimage.us.
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