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.
Museum in the Park: Make a Machine
Explore notable and innovative machines from our exhibition New York at Its Core. Then build a machine of your own!
Community Mural
Explore notable New Yorkers who have worked to improve their communities in New York at Its Core and Activist New York. Then work with others to make a community-inspired indoor mural!
Play New Yorker Checkers
Play our giant game of checkers to learn about the inspiring and influential people that have contributed to making New York City a creative, cultural destination!
Sketch & Sip: Salsa in New York
Learn how to draw action and motion while enjoying drinks and after-hours Museum access to the exhibition Rhythm & Power: Salsa in New York.
Museum in the Park: Design a Park for the City
Investigate Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux’s plan for Central Park in New York at Its Core. Become an urban planner to design your own version of Central 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.
