Artifact Archive – Museum of the Moving Image

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Featured Artifacts

Explore a sample of the 130,000 artifacts in the Museum’s Collection.

The head of the character Chewbacca, mouth slightly open showing fangs

Mask, Chewbacca, 1977

Concept art drawing of a deep-space vehicle pod from 2001: A Space Odyssey

Concept art, Studies for deep-space vehicle pod, 1965

Vitaphone Projector

Motion picture projector, Western Electric Vitaphone System 35mm Universal Base Projector, ca. 1927

The green puppet Kermit the Frog, one hand facing upwards, smiling at camera

Puppet, Kermit the Frog, c. 1974

Two oblong puppets, yellow and red, one smiling, one frowning

Puppet, Wilkins, 1979; Puppet, Wontkins, 1981

The Fraggle Gobo with purple hair and a striped shirt in full body puppet pose

Puppet, Gobo Fraggle, 1983

Video game console from 1982, with the image of a bursting yellow star against a purple background on the screen, and a game cartridge next to it

Video game console, Vectrex, c. 1982

Open screenplay of the movie Taxi Driver

Script, Taxi Driver, 1975

Orson Welles in makeup chair as artist applies old-age latex to his face

Photograph, Maurice Seiderman Applying Old-Age Makeup to Orson Welles During Production of Citizen Kane, 1940

Puppet, Sir Linit, 1967

The puppets Bert and Ernie, with Ernie on the right of the image, holding a rubber duckie and with one arm around Bert

Puppet, Ernie, 1980s

The yellow puppet Bert, arms folded, looking at camera

Puppet, Bert, 1970s

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