Past Events
Past Events
MCNY Kids Art Studio
Join us each week for a fun, hands-on art experience inspired by the Museum’s exhibitions and collection. This drop-in program is designed especially for children ages 3 and up and the adults who care for them.
3rd Annual Herstory Day
Join us for an intergenerational celebration of women’s history in New York City with a focus on women working to archive, preserve, and uplift their own communities.
Past Event: Rooted in Place: Stories of Home in the City
How do New Yorkers define "home" in a city plagued by housing insecurity? With Tanvi Misra of The Atlantic's CityLab.
Past Event: Rodgers & Hart’s I Married an Angel
How does collaboration fundamentally drive Broadway’s most beloved shows? A conversation and performance co-presented with New York City Center.
DNA Explorers
Learn about the basics of DNA and learn to extract DNA from a piece of fruit!
Past Event: The Power of Representation
Congresswoman Grace Meng and comedian Ronny Chieng of "Crazy Rich Asians" sit down with journalist Sarah Maslin Nir.
Contemporary Chinese Voices
Explore photographs by contemporary Chinese and Chinese-American photographers in the exhibition Interior Lives to discover stories of life in Chinatown.
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.
