Past Events
Past Events
Free Late-Night Wednesdays
Visit MCNY for free on Wednesdays until 9 p.m., and explore the Museum’s full slate of current and critically acclaimed exhibitions.
Past Event: I Could Tell You 'Bout My Life: Art and Incarceration
A conversation about the relationship between art and incarceration with New York artists, activists and educators.
Educator Evening: Jackie Robinson
Free curator tour for educators. 1 CTLE hour
Past Event: Remembering the Dead
Who is remembered, commemorated, or forgotten? Consider the complicated responses to disease with activist Avram Finkelstein and essayist Garnette Cadogan.
Lunar New Year Celebration
Gung Hay Fat Choy! Come ring in the Lunar New Year as we celebrate the coming of the Year of the Pig.
Past Event: Capturing “The Deuce”: Times Square in the 1970s & '80s
What draws artists and filmmakers to the seedy underworld of Times Square in the 1970s and '80s?
Chancellor’s Day: Immigration and the City
Learn how immigrant communities have shaped and been shaped by New York City.
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.
