MCNY Digital
Everything you love about the Museum of the City of New York is now online! Together we will head uptown, downtown, and throughout the five boroughs with online exhibitions, digitized collection objects, live streams, recorded videos, and more digital content that showcases what makes New York New York.
As the Museum of the City of New York, we have been telling the city's stories for nearly one hundred years. Join us as we celebrate, document, and interpret the past, present, and future of the world's most influential metropolis.
Explore All Our Digital Offerings
MCNY Live — MCNY Virtual Programs
Dive into conversations with artists, authors, politicians, and more who speak about their experiences as New Yorkers.
Your Hometown - Podcast
Your Hometown is an innovative new live event and podcast series conceived and hosted by historian Kevin Burke.
Education
Explore the Museum’s Frederick A.O. Schwarz Education Center digital platform to find videos and activities, stay informed about our current offerings, and easily access resources for educators, students, and learners of all ages.
Collections
Explore New York’s past through nearly 205,000 objects from the collection of the Museum of the City of New York.
Marian Anderson: A Digital Installation
To explore Anderson's remarkable legacy, the Museum of the City of New York has created a digital installation to examine, photograph, and digitize a collection of 12 of her garments to help preserve the singer's legacy as both a venerated classical vocalist and a symbol of progress in the advancement of civil rights.
What Makes New York New York?
See what some notable New Yorkers say makes New York special for them.
Curators from the Couch
Join MCNY live from home in our new series, “Curators from the Couch.” Our curators will speak with artists, influencers, and more... all from the comfort of their own couches.
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Online Exhibitions
Activist New York
Explore this virtual version of Activist New York, test your knowledge of activism in New York, and help us tell the story of today’s activists.
The Greatest Grid
Established in 1811 to blanket the island when New York was a compact town at the southern tip, the grid was the city’s first great civic enterprise and a vision of brazen ambition.Visit the Greatest Grid website to explore educational resources, interactive maps and more.
America's Mayor
This online version of the America's Mayor exhibition allows you to explore many of the objects and images that were on view at the Museum and to learn about the controversial tenure (1966–1973) and dramatic times of New York's 103rd mayor.
Worth & Mainbocher
This web presentation combines comprehensive catalogue entries with social histories and also provides detailed technical observations on the details of their construction and internal finishing techniques.
In Depth Stories
Milton Glaser and I [heart] New York
A tribute to celebrated graphic designer Milton Glaser, who created the iconic I [heart] NY logo. A selection of his works were recently added to the Museum’s Ephemera Collection, and several reflect cultural and social movements of the late 20th and early 21st century.
100 Years with the 19th Amendment
As we celebrate the 100th anniversary of voting rights for women, we look at how this has spurred digital initiatives, new monuments, collaborative consortiums, new scholarship and nuanced conversations that complicate the legacy of the suffrage movement and demonstrate the significant yet partial victory of the amendment.
Anxiety and Activism
Help the Museum Collect Artifacts to Document the Unprecedented Events of 2020
The Museum of the City of New York launched two separate Instagram campaigns using the hashtags #CovidStoriesNYC and the existing #ActivistNY tag to share how residents and visitors are witnessing this unprecedented moment of challenge and change in our city.
Video: Winter [Basket] Ball NBA Legend Portraits
NBA Legends Sam Perkins, Bernard King, Michael Eaves, Felipe López, Andre Barrett and Albert King stopped by to view the exhibition "City/Game: Basketball in New York" and speak with us about what sets NYC apart from other cities.
