Museum of the Moving Image

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''For the museum of the same name in New York, see under its previous name, American Museum of the Moving Image.

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 2002, the closure becoming permanent in the following year.

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.

However, in 2007/8, Bradford's National Museum of Photography, Film and Television plans to open a London venue, and the MOMI site is currently undergoing redevelopment with plans to open a "studio cinema", along with a café and bookshop, in autumn 2006.

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