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.
City as Canvas: Graffiti Art in NYC Student Workshop (Grades 4-12)
See highlights from the Museum’s graffiti art collection to learn about this dynamic and homegrown artistic movement in New York City’s history and create your own sketches.
City as Canvas: Graffiti Art in NYC Student Workshop (Grades 1-3)
See highlights from the Museum’s graffiti art collection to learn about this dynamic and homegrown artistic movement in New York City’s history and create your own sketches.
The Ultimate (Virtual) NYC Trivia Night: March
Put your knowledge of the NYC to the test at our virtual Trivia Night co-hosted with the Gotham Center for New York City History.
Your Hometown Virtual Conversation with Playwright Lynn Nottage
Award-winning playwright Lynn Nottage speaks with "Your Hometown" host Kevin Burke.
Row Houses, Brownstones, and Townhouses: From Amsterdam to the South Bronx
Author, planner, and historian Charles Duff discusses his latest book The North Atlantic Cities.
MCNY Kids Create: Looking Close and Building Tiny with the Stettheimer Dollhouse
Combine art and engineering in this virtual intergenerational STEAM education program as you draw inspiration from the famous Stettheimer dollhouse to design your own miniature world.
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.
