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.
Reflections of the City
Explore landscape images from our collections that depict the city beautifully reflected on the waterways. Sketch a cityscape reflection of your own to take home with you!
NYC Tots: Spring Class Series
Register for seven classes that focus on exploration and discovery of the city through song, play, and hands-on experiences.
Past Event: Law & Disorder
Sarah Maslin Nir sits down with Ronald Kuby and Shabaka Shakur to interrogate a flawed justice system.
Build a Boat: Getting Around NYC
Learn about the many waterways that surround our city and discuss challenges that New Yorkers face with water travel in the city. Consider some solutions and use various materials to build a boat of your own. Test it to see if it floats!
Oysters and the City
Learn about the significance and uses of oysters throughout New York City history. Then make an oyster print with clay to take home with you!
Build a Bridge for the City
Learn about the many types of bridges in the city and discuss some examples, such as the Brooklyn Bridge. Design and build a model bridge of your own!
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.
