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.
Stripping Stigma: HIV/AIDS in NYC Now (Brooklyn Historical Society)
Sarah Schulman, Dr. Robert Fullilove, and Anthony Albanese explore the footprint of the crisis of decades past, continued inequity in education and treatment across racial and socioeconomic communities, and marked efforts for opening the conversation surrounding HIV/AIDS in the post-PrEP era.
Past Event: Alternate Visions: Bold Proposals for Housing New Yorkers
Hear five distinct proposals to dramatically change the way the city thinks about housing.
SOLD OUT | Educator Evening: A City for Corduroy
Waitlist only. Join curator Morgen Stevens-Garmon to explore the work of artist Don Freeman.
NYC Tots: Winter Class Series
Register for six sessions that focus on exploration and discovery of the city through song, play, and hands-on experiences!
Educator Evening: Interior Lives
Join us for a free curator-led tour of the exhibition Interior Lives: Contemporary Photographs of Chinese New Yorkers.
Past Event: Disease & Disparity: Realities of the Uneven Playing Field of Public Health
Illness is rarely a result of biology alone. Leading scholars consider the attitudes, stigmatization, and violence surrounding disease and treatment.
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.
