Past Events
Past Events
A+/P Credit Course: Culture in Motion: Teaching NYC Immigration History Through Dance
Hit the books and the dance floor this summer as you learn about the history of New York City’s diverse population and rich immigrant cultures through the lens of dance!
Past Event: Back to School with Frederick Wiseman
A screening of “High School II,” which examines life at an alternative public school in East Harlem.
Future City Lab: Art, Culture, Fashion
Learn, act, and engage in the company of innovative artists, scientists, historians, and educators. Each Future City Lab will feature cutting edge thinking via immersive experiences.
Chancellor’s Day: Beyond Suffrage
Celebrate the women who changed politics in this full-day workshop for high school educators.
Educator Evening: King in New York
Examine Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s role in NYC history and connections to today’s Movement for Black Lives.
NYCity Lab: Immigration, 2000-2050
Examine New York’s history of immigration and current and future trends in the second of this two-day P Credit course for educators.
Educator Evening: Art in the Open
Look back at fifty years of public art in the city on a free curator-led tour.
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.