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Mission
The Museum of the Moving Image advances the public understanding and appreciation of the art, history, technique and technology of film, television, and digital media. It does so by collecting, preserving, and providing access to moving-image related artifacts; screening significant films and other moving-image works; presenting exhibitions of artifacts, artworks, and interactive experiences; and offering educational and interpretive programs to students, teachers, and the general public.

THE COLLECTION
Since its inception in 1981, Moving Image has assembled the nation's largest and most comprehensive holdings of moving image artifacts from every stage of producing, promoting, and exhibiting motion pictures, television, and digital media. The Museum houses exceptional collections of television sets; licensed merchandise; rare photographs; video and computer games; film projectors; props; costumes; editing, sound, and lighting equipment; theater furnishings; fan magazines; posters; and commissioned works of art.
Moving Image is currently in the early stages of a ten-year initiative that will involve cataloging and digitizing all of the Museum's intellectual assets. The project will make almost every aspect of the Museum accessible to audiences around the world.

MUSEUM HISTORY
The Museum is located on the site of the Astoria Studio, one of the largest motion picture and television production facilities in the United States. Originally built as Paramount's East Coast production facility in 1920, the studio was taken over in 1942 by the U.S. Army and renamed the Signal Corps Photographic Center. After the Army left in 1971, the site fell into disrepair. In 1977, the Astoria Motion Picture and Television Center Foundation was created as a not-for-profit organization to restore the studio buildings to productivity. In 1978, the Foundation obtained listing of the site on the National Register of Historic Places, and returned the studio to feature film production. The entire Astoria Studios site, including the Museum building, is owned by the City of New York.
In January 1981, the Foundation appointed Rochelle Slovin as Director, and, at her recommendation, revised the purpose of the Foundation to encompass the creation of a museum about motion pictures and television. The City of New York, which took over the site from the federal government in 1982, set aside one of the thirteen studio buildings for the Museum. The commercial motion picture studio was leased to the real estate developer, George Kaufman, and renamed Kaufman Astoria Studios. A $30 million capital campaign made it possible to complete the renovation of the Museum's facility and open it to the public on September 10,1988. Designed by award-winning architects Gwathmey Siegel & Associates, the current 50,000-square-foot facility houses exhibition galleries, a 200-seat film theater, a Museum shop, and a caf茅. In 1985, the Board of Trustees renamed the foundation American Museum of the Moving Image and in 2004 shortened this to the Museum of the Moving Image.