The madness is not over! While AMC’s Mad Men may have ended, you can still see the immersive exhibit, Matthew Weiner’s Mad Men, at the Museum of the Moving Image, now extended to Sept. 6.

First airing in 2007, Mad Men explores the professional and personal trials of Madison Avenue ad executive Don Draper during the 1960s, played by Jon Hamm. The series, distributed by Lionsgate, has won 15 Emmys and four Golden Globes.

The extensive exhibit of notes, complete sets (Don & Betty Draper’s kitchen in Ossining, NY and his Madison Avenue office), costumes (MM copywriters' outfits, Joan’s office attire, Megan Draper’s “Zou Bisou Bisou” dress), and props (the carousel from Draper’s Kodak campaign, the contents of Draper’s private box, wallet, his journal) were carefully chosen more than a year earlier, after the show’s production had wrapped, and made a pilgrimage from LA to New York, explained MOMI’s Barbara Miller, curator of the exhibition.

Betty & Don Draper's kitchen in Ossining, New York (photo Carin Baer/AMC)

A place for ideas, meetings and naps-Don Draper's office couch. (Photo Jamie Trueblood/AMC)

The exhibition offers unique insight into the series' simmering origins through hundreds of notes, many written by Weiner, as far back at 1993 (Weiner was also a writer/producer on The Sopranos), demonstrating how its exceptional storytelling and meticulous attention to period detail resulted in a vivid portrait of an era and the characters who lived through it. 

"The show has universal ideas-desire, self-invention, that are beautifully wrought," says Miller. Certainly seeing the sets and costumes in person will enable a person to connect with the show, but the mission is deeper. One will see "what it takes to write for television; it's an enormously collaborative process." Miller adds that working overtime on the exhibit "hasn't really changed my experience of watching the show. It doesn't disrupt the pleasure. It deepens it."

The exhibit even recreated the "writers' room" as its own set, where Weiner and his team crafted story ideas and scripts for the series. Matthew Weiner's Mad Men marks the first time objects relating to the production of the series will be shown in public on this scale.

For more information on the exhibit visit movingimage.us.