Screenings & Red Carpet Events

Make a splash with your next red carpet event.

Host your red carpet, screening and after-party in one location. Easily welcome VIPs via private entrance for red carpet followed by a screening in the LeFrak Theater, the Museum's hidden gem. Conveniently move within the Museum to your post reception.

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LeFrak Theater

This elegantly restored Beaux-Arts theater accommodates state-of-the-art digital media presentations with a 2D and 3D capable DCP cinema projection system on a 60-foot-by-40-foot screen and offers theatrical lighting and sound capabilities. Wheelchair accessible.

Additional Details

  • Main level capacity: 640
  • Balcony capacity: 275
  • 82-foot-by-15-foot stage
  • 18-foot-by-38-foot fixed screen (fully maskable)
  • 5.1 sound system
Rows of empty velvet seats face a giant screen inside the Museum's ornately-designed Lefrak theater.

Red Carpet

Accommodates a 90-foot-long step-and-repeat. 

A red carpet lined by stanchions and artificial trees and plants lines the entrance hall inside the Museum's Rose Center.
Signboards with the logo for HBO and the tv show Girls line a black carpet and stanchions inside the Museum's Rose Center.

Post Screening

After the credits roll, guests can mingle and celebrate in one of the Museum's iconic exhibit halls. 

A horseshoe-shaped bar and tables decorated with flowers and candles fill the space below the life-sized blue whale model suspended from the ceiling in the Museum's Hall of Ocean Life.
Circular couches surround the displays inside the dramatically-lit Cullman Hall of the Universe.
A horseshoe-shaped bar next to high tables and chairs and lounge areas are set up inside the Museum's Gilder Center Atrium.

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