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: Who We Are
Join Monxo López for a conversation with experts connected with our exhibition Who We Are: Visualizing NYC By The Numbers.
Bilingual in the Big Apple: Puerto Rican Education Activism and the Fight for Bilingual-Bicultural Education
Join scholar Lauren Lefty as she discusses the long path to securing the right to bilingual and bicultural education in the nation’s most linguistically diverse city. 1.5 CTLE
NYC Champions & Change Makers
Join us, virtually, as we pay tribute to the countless acts of heroism – great and small – across the five boroughs.
Curators from the Couch: Basketball in New York
Join Lilly Tuttle, curator of our exhibition City/Game: Basketball in New York, for a conversation with NBA Legend Sam Perkins and artist Eric Haze.
CANCELLED: Chancellor’s Day | Agitate, Educate, Organize: Tracing the History of Activism in NYC Schools
Explore the intersection between activism and education and the movement to desegregate city schools in this free day for educators.
Curators from the Couch: #CovidStoriesNYC
Sean Corcoran, curator of photography, will join photographers who have submitted their images to #CovidStoriesNYC, which is MCNY's initiative to document the perspectives and stories happening around New York during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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.
