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: New York at Its Core: The Archaeology
Leading archaeologists share their latest subterranean findings and explore what they reveal about the lives of previous generations of New Yorkers.
Cinco de Mayo Celebration
Join us for a special family day in celebration of the rich diversity of Mexican and Mexican-American cultural heritage!
Past Event: Writing the City
Novelist Jay McInerney and essayist Garnette Cadogan discuss their chosen callings as New York City writers.
Past Event: Satchmo in the Studio
Join us for the first public screening of the only known film of Louis Armstrong in the studio.
Past Event: The Subway
Joseph Lhota, Chairman of the MTA, and transportation advocate Veronica Vanterpool discuss what can be done to ensure the future success of New York City’s sprawling subway system.
Past Event: Steeped in History: Museums and Identity
A conversation with Lonnie Bunch of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Michael Glickman of the Museum of Jewish Heritage, and philanthropist David Rubenstein.
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.
