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.
Curators from the Couch: City/Game
Join curator Lilly Tuttle, for a conversation with experts connected to the exhibition City/Game: Basketball in New York.
Tracing the Legacy of Housing Discrimination in NYC
Join us for this free online workshop exploring the history and legacy of housing discrimination in our city and how New Yorkers fought for change. 1.5 CTLE.
Past Event: Horse Crazy from Coast to Coast with Sarah Maslin Nir & Walter Thompson-Hernández
Join journalists Sarah Maslin Nir and Walter Thompson-Hernández for a virtual conversation about the surprising stories that horses led them to uncover -- from LA to NYC.
Curators from the Couch: The City Within
Join curator Sean Corcoran and artists Alex Webb and Rebecca Norris Webb for a discussion connected to the exhibition The City Within.
Past Event: Moonlight & Movies | Love & Basketball On Site Screening
Join us for an in-person, outdoor screening of the classic basketball film Love & Basketball.
Past Event: Moonlight & Movies | Love & Basketball: Live Q & A
A conversation with director Gina Prince-Bythewood, players Chamique Holdsclaw and Priscilla Edwards, and journalist William Rhoden inspired by the film "Love & Basketball."
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.