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.
Picturing New York
Explore the stories of everyday and iconic New Yorkers in the exhibition "Collecting New York’s Stories: Stuyvesant to Sid Vicious." Make a collage that tells your own New York story.
Design Your Own Museum
Discover the people and places that have impacted the cultural landscape of the city & create your own new cultural space in a hands-on art activity.
Family Day | Urban Indian: Native New York Now
Learn about the experiences of Native Americans in urban spaces and create artwork based on the exhibition Urban Indian: Native New York Now
Family Day | City/Game: Basketball in New York
Discover basketball's role in shaping New York City and participate in a hands-on family activity.
Lunar New Year Celebration — Year of the Rat
Gung Hay Fat Choy! Come ring in the Lunar New Year as we celebrate the coming of the Year of the Rat.
Honoring Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
Join us for storytime, art-making, and a museum scavenger hunt in the exhibition Activist New York to explore King’s role in the Civil Rights Movement.
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.
