Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Movie Poster: Museum Object and Cultural History
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Movie Poster: date made: 1990. referenced: MC Hammer. Object Name: poster.
The object in the museum catalogue
Poster for the 1990 movie Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. The poster features all four Ninja Turtles peeking their heads out from underneath a manhole cover in the street with a cityscape behind them. The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles are four fictional anthropomorphic turtles named after famous Italian Renaissance artists: Donatello, Leonardo, Michelangelo, and Raphael. They are crime fighters who live in the sewers of New York City. Kevin Eastman and Peter Laird co-created these characters featured in comic books published by Mirage Studios beginning in 1984.
Materials, dates and provenance
- date made: 1990
- referenced: MC Hammer
- Object Name: poster
- Physical Description: paper (overall material)
- Physical Description: ink (overall material)
- Measurements: overall: 101.6 cm x 68.6 cm; 40 in x 27 in
- Subject: Motion Pictures
- ID Number: 1993.3187.06
- nonaccession number: 1993.3187
- catalog number: 1993.3187.06
- Credit Line: Mirage Licensing, Inc.
- Data Source: National Museum of American History
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