Events
Weekly Matinees
The Jimmy Stewart Museum shows a different matinee featuring Jimmy Stewart at 1:00 pm in our vintage 50-seat theater. Check to see what’s playing this week.
JIMMY STEWART VIDEO ESSAY CONTEST
The Jimmy Stewart Museum invited interested video essayists to submit audiovisual scholarship to its inaugural Video Essay Showcase. The submissions could be any theme or concept that relates to the life and/or the work of Hollywood actor Jimmy Stewart. A panel reviewed the submissions and picked four finalists in our contest. The finalists are listed below along with the links to their wonderful submissions
“What a Wonderful Life: A Jimmy Stewart Video Essay”
By Julissa Padilla
“James Stewart Is Believable”
By Aaron Taylor
“My Fear of the Everyman and Jimmy Stewart”
By Wickham Flannagan
“An Ode to Jimmy Stewart’s Legs”
By Maksim Selezniov & Artem Khlebnikov
Latest Exhibit
Stewart’s P-51 Mustang
May 15 through August 31
This latest exhibit highlights the impressive history of Stewart’s P-51 Mustang that won the Bendix Trophy in a Transcontinental Race in 1949. It set many speed records and even flew the footage of Queen Elizabeth’s Coronation to the United States. Learn more about this impressive aircraft and its fascinating history.
Special Events
At the Holidays
At The Holidays the museum does it right! There is a special It’s A Wonderful Life exhibit with movie posters, photos, memorabilia and behind the scenes movie facts. We also feature life-size movie cutouts for photo ops, It’s A Wonderful Life village and a miniature Granville house from the movie. Interspersed throughout the museum is also a Festival of Trees. Over 10 Christmas trees are on display that are decorated based on Jimmy Stewart’s life and films. Be sure to visit The Shop Around the Corner gift shop that has unique holiday items that make for great gifts! And of course, we show the movie It’s A Wonderful Life in our theater every day at 1 pm throughout the holiday season!