Past Events
Past Events
[POSTPONED] Educator Workshop: Freedom Day! Teaching Civil Rights Taking Action
More than 60 years after the Freedom Day School Boycott of 1964, join educators and curators from the Museum of the City of New York and New York Public Library’s Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture to reflect on the legacy of this historic civic action and how we can take inspiration from the past to act for a better future.
Free Blue Marble Ice Cream!
Celebrate the holidays at the Museum of the City of New York with our holiday tradition of FREE Blue Marble ice cream and a sleigh-full of winter-themed activities for children of all ages and NYC exhibitions for everyone.
Music to My Ears
Visit New York at Its Core to learn about artists whose music made a long lasting impact on the city and beyond. Then work with instruments and listen to recordings to inspire a sound maker of your own!
Music to My Ears
Visit New York at Its Core to learn about artists whose music made a long lasting impact on the city and beyond. Then work with instruments and listen to recordings to inspire a sound maker of your own!
400 Years of History, Live from New York!
Join Sarah Henry and Steven Jaffe, two of the lead curators of "New York at Its Core," for a conversation with Greg Young and Tom Meyers of The Bowery Boys.
Past Event: Radiant City
Join us for a screening of "Bill Cunningham New York" followed by a conversation with Mickey Boardman and Sally Singer.
Seminar Day: Health & Fitness
Free! Create, cook, stretch, eat, and learn during this day for educators co-sponsored by the NYC Department of Health that combines sessions on fitness, healthy eating, history, and policy planning initiatives. Lunch included.
Exhibitions
Songs of New York
Playful, kinetic, and full of surprises, Songs of New York is an immersive interactive experience that introduces visitors to a full range of music from and about New York City.
Urban Stomp
Immerse yourself in the vibrant dances that have shaped—and been shaped by—the city’s ever-changing cultural landscape.
Robert Rauschenberg’s New York
Features rarely seen photos that reveal Rauschenberg's deep engagement with the real world and his complex relationship with New York City.
