Past Events
Past Events
Educator Workshop: Freedom Day! Teaching Civil Rights Taking Action
More than 60 years after the Freedom Day School Boycott of 1964, join educators and curators from the Museum of the City of New York and New York Public Library’s Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture to reflect on the legacy of this historic civic action and how we can take inspiration from the past to act for a better future.
Past Event: The City We Became: A Conversation with N.K. Jemisin
Award-winning writer N.K. Jemisin discusses her latest novel "The City We Became."
Past Event: "Is Now When I Should Panic?": A Conversation with Roz Chast
Join cartoonist Roz Chast, a keen observer and documenter of NYC's faces, places, and personalities, for a virtual look at her work.
Curators from the Couch
Robert A. and Elizabeth Rohn Jeffe Chief Curator and Deputy Director Sarah Henry will be joined by information designer Giorgia Lupi, a partner at Pentagram, and artist and computer scientist Brian Foo.
POSTPONED: Satchmo in East Berlin
On this International Jazz Day, join us for a screening of a rare complete concert film of Louis Armstrong and His All Stars in East Berlin in 1965.
POSTPONED: Who We'll Be: Imagining the Future City
Educators, planners, and artists, and philanthropists talk about how to meet the challenges of the city's changing demographics in the future.
Earth Day—Online!
Download activities and storytime videos to celebrate the 50th Anniversary of Earth Day with the Museum of the City of New York.
Exhibitions
Songs of New York
Playful, kinetic, and full of surprises, Songs of New York is an immersive interactive experience that introduces visitors to a full range of music from and about New York City.
Robert Rauschenberg’s New York
Features rarely seen photos that reveal Rauschenberg's deep engagement with the real world and his complex relationship with New York City.
