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.
Past Event: Uptown Bounce: August 14
FREE! Our Uptown Bounce summer block party series concludes with an ode to classic summertime activities and hits from the '90s.
Garbage, Garbage Everywhere!
Explore the exhibition the Future City Lab to learn about how climate change and your personal trash are connected. Learn about the cycle of composting and how to recycle in the city.
Wet Water Lab Program
What’s in your water? Join us for a hands on experiment of our major water sources, the ways we use water, and filtration systems in the city!
Past Event: Gin Fizz à La Mode
Petrushka Bazin Larsen of Sugar Hill Creamery, Harlem's only family-owned ice cream parlor, and Sharene Wood of HH Bespoke Spirits reinvent this classic summertime cocktail.
Past Event: Uptown Bounce: August 7
FREE! Our tribute to the soundtrack of '80s New York and our city's endlessly vibrant downtown scene.
Cycling in the City Family Program
Visit the exhibition Cycling in the City: A 200-Year History to explore cycling cultures in the city, past and present. Then participate in a cycling related activity to take home with you.
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.
