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.

Matinees
James Stewart

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

 It’s a Wonderful Life

November 14 – January 10

This latest exhibit highlights the classic holiday film It’s a Wonderful Life. We have photos, posters, and behind the scenes little known facts. On top of that we have a festival of 10 themed Christmas trees throughout the museum. We show GE Theater’s The Trail to Christmas at 10:30 a.m., The Making of It’s a Wonderful Life at 11:30 a.m. and our 1:00 p.m. matinee is the film It’s a Wonderful Life.

 

Special Events

Special events include new rotating exhibits in our hallways and special featured displays. We celebrate Jimmy Stewart’s birthday at the end of May every year with a weekend full of events. We also have celebrity events/shows from time to time as well as our Harvey Award dinners/weekends.
Upcoming 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!