Madison Avenue is coming to Astoria.
A “Mad Men” exhibit at the Museum of the Moving Image featuring large-scale sets, costumes, props, advertising art and video clips from the hit AMC series is opening on March 14.
The show’s creator, writer and executive producer, Matthew Weiner, will also be at the Museum of the Moving Image next month to discuss the series, just weeks before the final episode.
Don Draper fans can get a look at his office, kitchen, suit and a box with “objects that reveal his true identity.”
More than 25 iconic costumes and hundreds of props will be on display — including Joan Holloway’s red dress from the Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce holiday party and Megan Draper’s “Zou Bisou Bisou” dress — and some items will later be added to the museum’s permanent collection.
But the exhibit, Matthew Weiner’s “Mad Men,” goes beyond what’s on screen.
Fans will also be offered insight into the origins and making of the series. There will be an installation featuring key elements of the writers’ room with story notes for the first half of its seventh and final season listed on whiteboards, and index cards, research material and other elements created and used by the writers of “Mad Men.”
The exhibit is the first time objects connected to the production of the show will be shown in public on this scale, according to the museum.
“We are grateful to AMC, Lionsgate and the extraordinarily talented team of creative professionals behind ‘Mad Men’ for giving us an unprecedented degree of access to objects that inform and define this landmark television series,” said Carl Goodman, executive director of Museum of the Moving Image.
Weiner will appear at the museum for a conversation about the creation and production of “Mad Men” on March 20. His talk kicks off Required Viewing: Mad Men’s Movie Influences, a 10-film series featuring movies curated by Weiner — including “The Apartment,” “Les Bonnes Femmes,” “The Americanization of Emily” and “North by Northwest” — that inspired the show, from March 14 to April 26.
”’Mad Men’ is much more than a popular television series, it has become a cultural touchstone inspiring a renewed interest in a critical time in the country’s history,” said Barbara Miller, the museum’s Curator of the Collection and Exhibitions. “With the generous participation of Matthew Weiner and his production team, we are able to reveal how Weiner’s profound commitment to exploring cultural history and human relationships informed the production of ‘Mad Men,’ and offer unique insight into the creative process behind the series.”
Matthew Weiner’s “Mad Men” runs from March 14 to June 14, at 36-01 35 Ave., and coincides with the series’ last seven episodes, which air on AMC beginning Sunday, April 5, at 10 p.m.
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