NEW YORK—At long last, the museum exhibition that everyone's been waiting for. OK, maybe not everyone, but Beetlejuice and Edward Scissorhands fans can now rejoice: the Museum of Modern Art is staging a Tim Burton retrospective this fall.

The show traces Burton's life and career in terms of his art, illustrations, writings, and films. It will boast rare drawings, storyboards, puppets, and early shorts by the influential director, including examples of his first professional work at Walt Disney Studios, the original puppets for characters from The Nightmare Before Christmas and The Corpse Bride, and artworks like oversize Polaroid prints and Pop surrealist drawings and paintings. Over the course of the show's five-month run, the museum will screen all 14 of Burton's feature films as well as run a series of movies that influenced him (the program, titled The Lurid Beauty of Monsters, appropriately includes James Whale's Frankenstein from 1931 and F.W. Murnau's Nosferatu).

The retrospective will open on November 22 and run through April 26, 2010.