ABOUT USWharton Studio Museum is preserving and celebrating Ithaca's role in early American filmmaking, and developing the historic Wharton Studio building in Stewart Park into a park center with exhibits and installations about film history and the history of the park.
WHO WE ARE AND WHAT WE'RE DOING
EVENTS AND EXHIBITSWharton Studio Museum produces four annual events -- Silent Movie Under the Stars (August); Silent Movie Month (October); Silents Roar! (spring); and Party for the Park (September, in collaboration with Friends of Stewart Park) -- in addition to other screenings, presentations and exhibits throughout the year. View our Calendar of Events and Exhibits for full details.
EVENTS AND EXHIBITS
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WAYS TO SUPPORTWSM to have home in new Tompkins Center for History & Culture on the Commons in ’19!
IN THE NEWS
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Jun
Spotlight On a Local Student Film!
Read moreWSM is pleased to be in contact with the video production program at New Roots Charter School. As a nonprofit education organization with a provisional
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08
May
WSM Awarded Tompkins County New Tourism Initiatives Grant!
Read moreOn May 1st, 2018, WSM was awarded a New Tourism Initiatives Grant ($5,000) from Tompkins County Tourism Program to develop a Wharton Studio Era
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May
Silents Roar! Spring 2018 Postponed
Read moreThis year’s Silents Roar! Film Festival has been postponed and will come back bigger and better in the spring of 2019. Please stay tuned! A
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02
Apr
Take an Ithaca Silent Film Tour!
Read moreWSM has created a Wharton Studio Silent Film Tour. This self-guided tour takes you to a number of Ithaca’s silent movie history locations, beginning with