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 as Canvas
Join Sean Corcoran for a conversation with John "CRASH" Matos and Lee Quinones to discuss their work and the resurgence of graffiti and street art in the city.
A Wonder-ful Time
Build a model Coney Island Wonder Wheel and celebrate the 100th birthday of this iconic amusement park ride
Past Event: Moonlight & Movies: Nuyorican Básquet
A conversation with filmmakers about "Nuyorican Básquet," the story of the Puerto Rican national basketball team's participation in the 1979 Pan American Games.
Past Event: New York's Communities of Color and the Police: A Historical Perspective
How have New York's communities of color experienced and responded to the police, from the 1920s through the 1980s? A panel moderated by TV journalist Carol Jenkins.
Animal Friends
Craft an animal Tic-Tac-Toe game from homemade materials while learning about animals who played a role in shaping NYC
Criminals Among Us? Fingerprinting and Criminal Background Checks in Pre-WWII New York City
Join scholar Dan Ewert for an exploration of the fraught history of fingerprinting and criminal background checks in pre-WWII New York City. 1.5 CTLE
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.