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.
Father’s Day Card Making
Create a card to express your gratitude and love for all that your father does for you!
Eid al-Fitr Community Celebration
Celebrate Eid al-Fitr, the end of Ramadan, at the Museum of the City of New York!
Transgender in New York: A Nineteenth-Century Story
Learn how transgender youth asserted their identities and fought for inclusion in nineteenth-century New York.
Past Event: Radical Routes Tour: Harlem's Women Activists
Explore the neighborhood of Harlem as an epicenter of social activism on this multimedia tour.
Past Event: The Candela Allure
What gives the designs of renowned architect Rosario Candela such an enduring appeal?
Chancellor’s Day: New York Changemakers
From famous faces to everyday New Yorkers, learn who shapes the city and how to highlight change makers in the classroom.
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.
