Past Events
Past Events
(SOLD OUT) The Museum Party
The Junior Board of the Museum of the City of New York invites you to The Museum Party for an evening of drinks and dancing.
The Young Lords and Health Activism Student Workshop (Grades 4–12)
Free Student Workshops: "The Young Lords and Health Activism.” See highlights from the exhibition "Activist New York" to learn about the Young Lords’ health activism and creative actions against inequality and poverty. (Grades 4–12)
Revisiting the Harlem Renaissance: Visual Arts and Black Design
Explore the visual arts of the Harlem Renaissance with Jeffrey C. Stewart and Margaret Rose Vendryes.
Revisiting the Harlem Renaissance: Poetry and the New Negro Literacy
Jeffrey C. Stewart reflects on the poets and the poetry of the Harlem Renaissance with Mahogany L. Browne.
Past: Reimagining Violence Prevention
Times reporter Ashley Southall leads an expert discussion about how urban communities are developing new approaches to violence prevention.
Revisiting the Harlem Renaissance: Art is Philosophy
The opening event in our "Revisiting the Harlem Renaissance" series with Jeffrey C. Stewart.
Rising Tide: Visualizing the Human Costs of the Climate Crisis
A conversation about the human costs of the global climate crisis with photographer Kadir van Lohuizen and other experts.
Exhibitions
He Built This City
Explore Joe Macken’s monumental model and discover the extraordinary vision behind one of the most ambitious handmade representations of New York City ever created.
The Occupied City
This immersive exhibition transforms the Museum's third floor into a vivid journey through Revolutionary-era New York.
Another Wonderland
Celebrates the rescue and restoration of a major New Deal–era mural cycle created for the children’s ward at Gouverneur Hospital, featuring Lewis Carroll’s beloved characters exploring 1930s New York City.
Halumii Ktapihna
Encounter the enduring presence and living cultures of the Lenape/Lunáapeew—the original people of Lenapehoking/Lunaapeewáhkiing, the land now known as New York City and its surrounding region.
