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.
Freedom for One, Freedom for All? Abolition and Woman Suffrage, 1830s – 1920s
Application deadline is March 1! Unpack the intertwined histories of Abolition and Woman Suffrage at the Brooklyn Historical Society and the Museum of the City of New York.
NYC Tots: Summer Class Series
Register for six sessions that focus on exploration and discovery of the city through song, play, and hands-on experiences!
Neighborhood Mapping
Explore different NYC neighborhoods through a scavenger hunt around the Museum, then create a treasure map of your own neighborhood!
Home Is Where the Art Is
Explore Art in the Open: Fifty Years of Public Art in New York to find models, photographs, and video footage tracing the creation of public artworks in New York City from the late 1960s through today.
Past Event: Searching for Soul: New York City in the Age of Hyper-Gentrification
Writers Jeremiah Moss, Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts, and Vinson Cunningham consider whether or not the city has truly lost its “soul” with cartoonist Julia Wertz.
Past Event: Reduce, Reuse, Rethink: The Future of Waste in NYC
How can New York City, one of the world's most wasteful metropolises, eliminate its trash by 2030?
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.
