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.
3rd Annual LGBTQ Teen Summit
Join us for a prideful full-day experience for teens and youth as part of World Pride. Celebrate the intersections of LGBTQ culture, history, and commemorate the 50th anniversary of Stonewall uprising amongst peers and allies.
Past Event: Moonlight & Movies: 9 to 5 - Happy Hour and Film
An '80s-inspired happy hour plus outdoor screening of the 1980 feminist classic, introduced by New York Times Gender Editor Jessica Bennett.
Past Event: Dwelling in the Future: Imagining Tomorrow's City
A group of artists, thinkers and designers speculate about what New York City's distant future might look like.
Meet the Curators: Sean Corcoran, Curator of Prints and Photographs
*NEW* Experience The Voice of the Village: Fred W. McDarrah Photographs and PRIDE: Photographs of Stonewall and Beyond by Fred W. McDarrah with the exhibition curator!
Father's Day Private Tour [Registration Closed]
Father’s Day outing for sports fans and history buffs! Treat your dad, grandfather, uncle, brother, or friend to a special Father’s Day tour of In the Dugout with Jackie Robinson and Cycling in the City.
Educator Evening: The Voice of the Village & PRIDE: Photographs of Stonewall and Beyond by Fred W. McDarrah
Explore two exhibitions on a free curator-led tour for educators.
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.