Art and Design

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A gallery with several screens.
Through October 5, 2025

You Are Here

“You Are Here” draws on the rich archive of movies set in New York, combining thousands of cinematic moments across 16 screens.
Watercolor of Central Park showing Belvedere Castle in the Summer.
Through June 16, 2024

Four Seasons of Central Park

These four quietly iconic watercolors by Frederick Brosen capture a year in some of the most historic places in this verdant urban masterpiece.  
Gingerbread NYC written out in gingerbread cookies. The tops of three gingerbread houses sit below, with a gingerbread person peeking out the top of the one on the far right.
November 10, 2023 - January 15, 2024

Gingerbread NYC: The Great Borough Bake-Off

It's time for the annual Great Borough Bake-Off! We invited bakers from across the five boroughs to design New York City-inspired gingerbread creations.
A mosaic of a woman with a red skirt.
Through December 8, 2024

Byzantine Bembé

Explore the visual storytelling of El Barrio’s own artist and mosaicist Manny Vega.
Painting of person sitting on M Train going over the Williamsburg Bridge
Through July 21, 2024

This Is New York

In honor of the Museum’s centennial, this exhibition, which spans a full city block, is organized around the types of urban spaces where the stories of New York are told.
Graphic with the text "Gingerbread NYC" shaped out of iced cookies and "The Great Borough Bake-off: in black script.
November 11, 2022 - January 16, 2023

Gingerbread NYC: The Great Borough Bake-Off

It's our first-ever Great Borough Bake-off! We invited bakeries and bakers from each borough to design New York City-inspired gingerbread creations.
Photograph of the immersive installation "Raise Your Voice," original artwork of activists and allies Yuri Kochiyama and Malcolm X by artist Amanda Phingbodhipakkiya.
Ongoing

Raise Your Voice

This immersive installation by Brooklyn-based artist Amanda Phingbodhipakkiya is inspired by the resiliency of New York’s Asian American and Pacific Islander community.
Five-piece silver tea service. Lids are shaped like architectural buildings/structures.
January 22, 2020 - May 15, 2022

Collecting New York's Stories

How can objects tell the dynamic and eclectic stories of New Yorkers? Find out through select items from the Museum's collections.
Right side view of the Stettheimer Dollhouse, showing three interior rooms.
November 20, 2020 - October 3, 2022

The Stettheimer Dollhouse

Discover rarely seen miniature works from the Stettheimer Dollhouse created by some of the leading lights of early 20th-century modernism.
New York from the marshes around the Hackensack River in New Jersey]
April 16, 2021 - May 1, 2022

Rising Tide

Documentary photographer Kadir van Lohuizen illustrates the dramatic consequences of rising sea levels worldwide.