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.
Finger Knitting Fun
Join us for a knitting circle to discover various techniques to make a special flower design to take home with you. We’ll provide the yarn!
Flower Power: Environmental Button Making
Design a button to express something about the environment that you are passionate about!
Pysanky Eggs for Easter
Learn about New York artist Roz Chast’s “egg-citing” twist on Ukrainian pysanky egg dying. Explore images of Chast’s New York-inspired designs and create a paper egg using a wax resist technique.
Past Event: State of the (Public) Art
A conversation with leaders of New York’s most innovative public art projects and spaces: the High Line, Governors Island, and The Laundromat Project.
Past Event: Feminist Wikipedia Edit-a-Thon
Join us for a coffee-fueled Wikipedia Edit-a-Thon to expand and improve the historical record of feminist activism.
Past Event: A City Made by Women: A Symposium
Explore the rich history of feminist activism in New York City featuring Teen Vogue’s new executive editor and leading scholars.
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.
