The Museum of the Moving Image (MOMI) was a museum of the history of moving picture technology and media, including cinema and its forerunners, opened in 1988 and sited below Waterloo Bridge and forming part of the cultural complex on the South Bank of the River Thames, London. MOMI was funded [mostly] by private subscription and operated by the British Film Institute. MOMI was closed "temporarily" in 1999, the closure becoming permanent in 2002. 1988 (MCMLXXXVIII) was a leap year starting on a Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ... View of the old Waterloo Bridge from Whitehall stairs, John Constable, 18 June 1817 Waterloo Bridge. ... The National Theatre is one of the collection of arts buildings that make up the South Bank Centre. ... The Thames (pronounced /temz/) is a river flowing through southern England and connecting London with the sea. ... Part of the London skyline viewed from the South Bank London is the most populous city in the European Union, with an estimated population on 1 January 2005 of 7. ... The British Film Institute (BFI) is a charitable organisation established by Royal Charter to encourage the development of the arts of film, television and the moving image throughout the United Kingdom, to promote their use as a record of contemporary life and manners, to promote education about film, television and...

MOMI was housed in a glass-sided steel framed metal-clad building, with distinctive red roofs running along each side of Waterloo Bridge. The playful hybrid of high-tech and post-modern style in the design of the MOMI building makes a vigorous contrast with the Brutalist architecture of much of the neighbouring South Bank Centre and National Theatre and the Art Deco Waterloo Bridge. View of the old Waterloo Bridge from Whitehall stairs, John Constable, 18 June 1817 Waterloo Bridge. ... High tech refers to high technology, technology that is at the cutting-edge and the most advanced currently available. ... Postmodernism (sometimes abbreviated pomo) is a term applied to a wide-ranging set of developments in critical theory, philosophy, architecture, art, literature, and culture, which are generally characterized as either emerging from, in reaction to, or superseding, modernism. ... Brutalism is an architectural style that spawned from the modernist architectural movement and which flourished from the 1950s to the 1970s. ... The South Bank Centre is a complex of arts buildings located on the south bank of the River Thames beside the Hungerford Bridge. ... Several countries have a National Theatre. ... Asheville City Hall. ... View of the old Waterloo Bridge from Whitehall stairs, John Constable, 18 June 1817 Waterloo Bridge. ...

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Enjoy MOMI where visitors are taken on a journey from old Chinese shadow plays through the early years of cinema to a modern TV studio. The 3000 year-old story of moving pictures is presented in an intelligent, interactive way. With its teams of actors and new technology,MOMI is a fun place for all the family. Enjoy charlie Chaplin's famous little tramp, fly like Superman, be a TV newsreader, win a role in a Hollyywood film. See and feel the story of cinema as it is brought to life in front of your eyes.

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