Past Events
Past Events
(WAITLIST ONLY) Public Art as Public Health: The Role of Visual Art in Hospitals
This panel brings together researchers, policymakers, clinicians, artists, and philanthropists to imagine the hospital of the future, one where the arts are a vital and normal part of quality care.
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.
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.
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.
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.
New York on Film: A Thousand and One
Join us for a screening of A Thousand and One (A. V. Rockwell, 2023, 114 mins)
We Are Still Here! Lunaapeew/Lenape Celebration Weekend – Day 2
Enjoy dance performances, arts and crafts, language workshops, and more activities for all ages at our inaugural celebration weekend of Lunaapeew/Lenape cultural heritage celebration.
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.
