Past Events
Past Events
Free Late-Night Wednesdays
Visit MCNY for free on Wednesdays until 9 p.m., and explore the Museum’s full slate of current and critically acclaimed exhibitions.
Stand Up & Speak Out: Zine Making
Discover key social movements, leading activists, and how ordinary New Yorkers have exercised their power to shape the city’s and the nation’s future.
Leading Ladies: Puppet Making
Celebrate the New York City women who have championed for change. Choose a figure as inspiration to make your own activist paper puppet with a message for change.
Paint Through the City
There is so much to do and see in the city, including vibrant art seeping into every corner. Visit Art in the Open: Fifty Years of Public Art in New York to discover the creativity all around us.
Mural Mania
New York City is known for vibrant public murals. Explore Art in the Open: Fifty Years of Public Art in New York, then make your mark on our collective mural painting!
Printmaking Skyline
New York City’s skyline is an iconic sight! Visit Elegance in the Sky: The Architecture of Rosario Candela to get inspired before using printmaking techniques to create a city skyline of your own.
City and Sky Collaging
Explore Elegance in the Sky: The Architecture of Rosario Candela to learn about Rosario Candela’s major role in shaping the architectural legacy of 20th-century New York.
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.
