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.

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Jimmy Stewart Video Essay Showcase

The Jimmy Stewart Museum invites all interested video essayists to submit audiovisual scholarship to its inaugural Video Essay Showcase. The panel will consider works on any theme or concept that relates to the life and/or work of Hollywood actor James Stewart (1908-1997).

Latest Exhibit

New Exhibit! Stewart on the Small Screen

February until May 12th

This latest exhibit highlights Jimmy Stewart’s appearances on the small screen. Through pictures and text relive the glory days of television through Stewarts many talk show/variety show appearances, TV specials, and his two TV series The Jimmy Stewart Show and Hawkins. In conjunction with this exhibit, we also have highlighted his extensive radio career in a nearby hallway. No matter what the size of the screen, Jimmy Stewart made a lasting impression on us all!

 

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.

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!