Museum of the Moving Image needs $35K to reopen, and they're giving cool rewards to donors

The Museum of the Moving Image is offering cool rewards to people who contribute to help it reopen. Photo courtesy of MOMI

By David Brand

Astoria’s Museum of Moving Image says it needs $35,000 to reopen to the public and it’s using a Kickstarter campaign with several unique rewards to help raise the cash. 

The museum, which has been closed since March, kicked off the fundraiser on Thursday.  

In exchange for $200, the museum will provide a Zoom tour of the Jim Henson Exhibition or the “Envisioning 2001: Stanley Kubrick’s Space Odyssey” exhibition.

A $1,250 contribution will get you an original animation cell from The Simpsons, while $6,000 buys a custom-made puppet from Jim Henson Company puppet designer James Wojtal, Jr. 

“Now is your chance to own rare pieces of film and TV history and support the U.S.'s only museum devoted to film, television, and digital media,” MOMI said in a statement.