The Museum of Natural History hosted Out of This World: Extraordinary Costumes from Film and Television in summer of 2012.
Out of This World: Extraordinary Costumes from Film and Television featured more than 40 costumes and related objects from science fiction films and television programs such as, Star Wars, Blade Runner, Terminator, Star Trek, Batman and more. The exhibition will allow visitors to examine how costume design incorporates colour, style, scale, materials, historical traditions nature and cultural cues to help performers and audiences engage, in new or accepted ways, with the characters being portrayed.
The exhibition included 43 artifacts. Costume highlights include:
- Hat worn by Margaret Hamilton as the Wicked Witch of the West in the film The Wizard of Oz (1939)
- Leather jacket worn by Harrison Ford as Indiana Jones in the film Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989) and Indy's whip from the film Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
- Leather jacket worn by Arnold Schwarzenegger in the film The Terminator (1984)
- Costume worn by Dan Aykroyd as Dr. Raymond Stantz in the film Ghostbusters II (1989).
- Embroidered robe worn by actor Joe Turkel as Eldon Tyrell, creator of the replicants, in Blade Runner (1982)
- Costume worn by George Clooney as Batman in the film Batman & Robin (1997)
- Tunic and sash worn by William Shatner as Captain Kirk in the Star Trek episode "Mirror Mirror" (1967)