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.
Snow Globes: Winter Wonderland
Explore images in the exhibition Mastering the Metropolis to learn about buildings that make up our city’s views; then make your own New York City inspired snow globe!
Make a Flake
Join us for a day of winter fun as you learn various techniques and approaches to creating a paper snowflake design of your very own!
Winter Windows: Stained Glass
Discover designs of stained glass windows throughout New York City. Then use cellophane and frames to design your own special winter window decoration!
Winter Scene Painting
Explore winter images of New York City from the Museum’s collections, and then use paint and your imagination to create your own wonderful winter artwork!
Hanukkah Family Day
Join us for a family day in celebration of Hanukkah. Create a menorah in time to light the first candle at night!
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.
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.