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.
NYC Tots: Summer Class Series
Register for six sessions that focus on exploration and discovery of the city through song, play, and hands-on experiences!
Neighborhood Mapping
Explore different NYC neighborhoods through a scavenger hunt around the Museum, then create a treasure map of your own neighborhood!
Home Is Where the Art Is
Explore Art in the Open: Fifty Years of Public Art in New York to find models, photographs, and video footage tracing the creation of public artworks in New York City from the late 1960s through today.
Father’s Day Card Making
Create a card to express your gratitude and love for all that your father does for you!
Eid al-Fitr Community Celebration
Celebrate Eid al-Fitr, the end of Ramadan, at the Museum of the City of New York!
Mother’s Day Card Making
Create a card to express your gratitude and love for all that your mother does for you!
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.