My MOMI Experience

I had actually been to the Museum of Moving Image in Astoria quite a few times before our trip with the class last week.  My family often looks for fun things to do on the weekends together, and since we all share a common interest of movies and television, we have spent several afternoons there.  With that being said, I was fairly familiar with the museum.  However, this was the first time that I have been there since I have been a MEDP160 student, so I was able to look around and experience MOMI with a greater educational perspective.

Overall, I thought the trip was a fun event.  I believe that it was very useful to have had us go around and be face-to-face with things that we have spoken about in class but would never be able to otherwise experience.  For example, the videocamera exhibit which displayed the evolution of the videocamera was really neat and interesting to see, because we spoke about it at length in lecture and would never be able to see those anywhere else today.  Things like that were really beneficial and educational.

My one gripe about the trip was that the museum has so many fun hands-on exhibits that we just did not get around to, be it because of time constraints or because these exhibits weren't deemed as necessary to visit.  Nevertheless, I think that we as students could have equally as benefitted form the "fun" hands-on stuff just as much as we benefitted from the more educational bits.

Although I have been to MOMI more times than I could count at this point, I would definitely go back again in the future.  The museum is always a good and interesting time!