Past Events

Past Events

For Adults Friday, September 25, 8:00pm

(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.
Members Only Thursday, February 13, 10:00am

Member Previews: City/Game: Basketball in New York

Members can enjoy early access to City/Game: Basketball in New York before the exhibition opens to the public! Member Previews run from Wednesday, February 12 through Thursday, February 13 from 10 AM to 6 PM during Museum hours.
Members Only Wednesday, February 12, 10:00am

Member Previews: City/Game: Basketball in New York

Members can enjoy early access to City/Game: Basketball in New York before the exhibition opens to the public! Member Previews run from Wednesday, February 12 through Thursday, February 13 from 10 AM to 6 PM during Museum hours.
For Adults Tuesday, February 11, 9:00pm

WINTER [BASKET] BALL: POST GAME PARTY

FOR AGES 35 & UNDER: The Museum of the City of New York paid homage to almost a century of NYC B-Ball with drinking, dancing, and basketball arcade games at the post-game party for the Museum's Winter [Basket] Ball.
For Adults Tuesday, February 11, 6:30pm

WINTER [BASKET] BALL

The Museum celebrated the game of basketball and the players who have shaped it with drinking, dining, and dancing as well as presented the inaugural Gotham Icon Award to KAREEM ABDUL-JABBAR and OWEN D. THOMAS.

Exhibitions

Through October 12, 2026

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.
Through March 19, 2027

The Occupied City

This immersive exhibition transforms the Museum's third floor into a vivid journey through Revolutionary-era New York.
Through October 12, 2026

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.
Through April 17, 2027

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.
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