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.
Andy Warhol: Printmaking Workshop
Learn about the work of artist Andy Warhol, which brings to life the queer creative networks of New York in the 20th century.
Queer Art at the Edge
Join three leading queer artists as they talk about the ways in which LGBTQ identity and community shape their work.
Fireside Chat: Adam Shaughnessy
Join children's author Adam Shaughnessy for an evening of magic and mystery. Perfect for adults and children seven years of age or older!
Chancellor’s Day: Gay Gotham
In this full day of programming for educators, discover the artistic subcultures in New York during the 20th century and celebrate the queer creative networks whose radical ideas had lasting effects on the mainstream.
MY CITY LAB: Machines and Movement
Explore the exhibition New York at Its Core to find iconic objects throughout New York City history and use various materials to design a machine of your own!
Lunar New Year Performance
Join us for a special Lion Dance performance to learn about traditional stories around the holiday. Then enjoy a special snack and make a lantern to take home.
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.
