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Past Events

Picture of family of mother, boy, and child with an onlooker behind looking in awe at a LEGO construction

For Families Saturday, June 13, 2:00pm

Family Program: Build Upper Manhattan LEGO Event

Let’s build Upper Manhattan using 100,000 LEGO Blocks!

Special Events Monday, May 13, 4:00pm

Partner Event: 14th Annual Clara Lemlich Awards

Honoring the lives of incredible women whose many decades of brilliant activism have made real and lasting change.

An image of a mosaic featured famed musician Tito Puente with an exuberant smile joyfully playing drums with a blue background filled with multicolored circles.

For Families Sunday, May 12, 11:00am

NYC Discovery Lab – My City, Our History - May 12

Visit the Museum’s NYC Discovery Lab each weekend in May to discover how every day New Yorkers have captured their own stories and make art to share your city story.

Manny works on a huge in progress mosaic on a table in his home studio.

For Adults Saturday, May 11, 1:00pm

Open Studio: Mosaic Making

Learn the mosaic making process and be part of collectively making a mosaic with other museum visitors, moderated by Manny Vega.

Poet Amiri Baraka performing with a group of jazz musicians on a stage

For Educators Saturday, May 11, 12:00pm

Poetry as Pedagogy: Jazz and Poetry: Avant-Gardes of Resistance

This workshop will focus on the importance of jazz traditions for New York poetry and politics, exploring the interrelation between resistance music and poetry and how we can use both forms of media to more deeply engage our students.

For Families Saturday, May 11, 11:00am

NYC Discovery Lab – My City, Our History - May 11

Visit the Museum’s NYC Discovery Lab each weekend in May to discover how every day New Yorkers have captured their own stories and make art to share your city story.