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.
Activist Paper Doll Making
Celebrate the New York City women who have championed for change in the garment industry by exploring the Activist New York and City of Struggle: How Labor Movements Changed New York exhibitions. Choose a figure as inspiration to make your own activist paper doll with a message for change.
Educator P Credit Course: Rhythm & Power
Learn about NYC’s rich immigrant cultures through the lens of dance. 3 P Credits/36 CTLE hours
Past Event: 1001 Nights: Introducing Brooklyn Brewery's New Beer
Intrepid spice hunter Ethan Frisch of Burlap & Barrel and Brooklyn Brewery brewmaster Garrett Oliver introduce their bold new beer.
Mural Mania
New York City is full of vibrant public murals that line city’s buildings. Leave your mark in our collective community mural painting!
Neighborhood Mapping
What does community mean to you? Explore and celebrate the diverse communities and subcultures of New York City through a scavenger hunt of the museum and neighborhood mapping projects!
Past Event: Whose Streets? Reclaiming NYC for Cyclists
How can we rethink the relationship between cycling and the city for the benefit of all? A panel discussion.
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.
