Past Events
Past Events
[CANCELED] 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.
Canceled: Uptown Bounce (Back) 2021
Uptown Bounce is back and in person! The Museum of the City of New York, El Museo del Barrio, and The Africa Center are delighted to co-present our popular, annual summer block party.
MCNY Kids Create: City as Canvas - Graffiti Art in New York City
Recommended for ages 7 and up. Sketch your own ideas as you explore the Museum’s graffiti art collection and hear about the NYC "writers” who made graffiti into a worldwide phenomenon.
MCNY Kids Create: Patterns and Rhythms in NYC Jazz
Dive into the world of jazz in New York City and create your own rhythms and patterns with New York-based musicians Sarah Elizabeth Charles and Victoria Smith.
Past Event: MCNY Kids Create: Patterns and Rhythms in NYC Jazz
Dive into the world of jazz in New York City and create your own rhythms and patterns with New York-based musicians Sarah Elizabeth Charles and Victoria Smith.
SOLD OUT: Celebrating Juneteenth: MCNY presents FREEDOM SONGS featuring Kenyatta Emmanuel & Shanelle Gabriel
We celebrate Juneteenth with an afternoon of song and spoken word reflections by performers Kenyatta Emmanuel and Shanelle Gabriel.
The Young Lords and Health Activism Student Workshop (Grades 4–12)
Free Student Workshops: "The Young Lords and Health Activism.” See highlights from the exhibition "Activist New York" to learn about the Young Lords’ health activism and creative actions against inequality and poverty. (Grades 4–12)
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.