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.
Water All Around: Watercolor Painting
Explore New York at Its Core to get inspired by images of NYC water sources, then choose a scene to create a watercolor landscape painting.
Stand Up & Speak Out: Zine Making
Discover key social movements, leading activists, and how ordinary New Yorkers have exercised their power to shape the city’s and the nation’s future.
Leading Ladies: Puppet Making
Celebrate the New York City women who have championed for change. Choose a figure as inspiration to make your own activist paper puppet with a message for change.
Summer 2018 P Credit Course: New York at Its Core
Learn from experts in the field and engage with the history, art, and culture of the city as you develop lessons for your classroom in this 6-day course for educators.
Secret Central Park: Summer Scavenger Hunt and Happy Hour
Race to match historic images of Central Park with their present-day locations.
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.
