Past Events
Past Events
(SOLD OUT) The Museum Party
The Junior Board of the Museum of the City of New York invites you to The Museum Party for an evening of drinks and dancing.
Jasmine Blooms at Night Mixed Media Making - 10am
Inspired by Jaishri Abichandani's Jasmine Blooms at Night, featured in our exhibition City of Faith: Religion, Activism, and Urban Space, we welcome young artists to create a mixed media portrait of someone who inspires them.
Past Event: Soul of the City: Live @ MCNY with Falu
Join us for an evening of live music at our Soul of the City series with GRAMMY® Award-winning artist, Falu.
Neighbors of Home Portrait Making - 12pm
Create a portrait of someone who reminds you of home, inspired by those featured in our inaugural photography exhibition, New York Now: Home – A Photography Triennial.
Neighbors of Home Portrait Making - 10am
Create a portrait of someone who reminds you of home, inspired by those featured in our inaugural photography exhibition, New York Now: Home – A Photography Triennial.
New York on Film: The Clock
Join us for a screening of The Clock (Vincente Minelli, 1945), introduced by Jourdain Searles
P Credit /A+Course: People of New York: How Individuals Shape History
In this weeklong, in-person course for K-12 educators, join us to have fun and learn together as we examine the past, present, and future of the city through the lives of individual New Yorkers. 3 P Credits/45 CLTE hours.
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.
