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.
Pilates on the Terrace
Start your day with Pilates Perfect Studio owner Alexia Simmons for an outdoor class on the Museum’s Terrace overlooking Central Park.
Sketching Salon: 1970s Latin Jazz & Salsa
Join Drawing New York and the Museum to sip and sketch while soaking in the 1970s salsa vibe during this after-hours drawing event.
Past Event: On the Front Lines of Reproductive Rights
Free! Faye Wattleton shares her experience on the front lines of national conflict over reproductive rights.
Past Event: Hot Jazz Moonlight Social
Join us for an outdoor "hot jazz" concert by the Gotham Kings on the Museum’s terrace.
Past Event: Get Me Out: Childbirth in Early 20th-century NYC
Free! Randi Hutter Epstein explores how turn-of-the-century doctors, medical charlatans, and feminist activists saved women’s lives.
Museum in the Park: Create an Activist Badge
Learn about key social movements, leading activists, and ordinary New Yorkers who have exercised their power to shape the city’s and the nation’s future. Create a badge to inspire change!
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.
