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: "Black Is Beautiful": Fashion and Consciousness
Documentary photographer Kwame Brathwaite discusses his pioneering “Black Is Beautiful” photographs.
Future City Lab: Art, Culture, Fashion
Learn, act, and engage in the company of innovative artists, scientists, historians, and educators. Each Future City Lab will feature cutting edge thinking via immersive experiences.
Past Event: What's Next for Ice Skating in New York?
Explore the future of ice skating in New York City for athletes and enthusiasts alike with leading voices in the sport.
Chancellor’s Day: Beyond Suffrage
Celebrate the women who changed politics in this full-day workshop for high school educators.
Past Event: Underground Art: Tour of the Second Avenue Subway
Explore the treasure trove of public art in the Second Avenue subway on a guided tour of its four new stations.
Past Event: The Legacy of Shirley Chisholm: Screening and Conversation
Join Shola Lynch for a screening and discussion of her documentary, "Chisholm ’72: Unbought & Unbossed," with Congresswoman Yvette Clarke and Donna Brazile.
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.
