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.
Cinco de Mayo Celebration
Join us for a special family day in celebration of the rich diversity of Mexican and Mexican-American cultural heritage!
PAST EVENT: Earth Day Celebration
Celebrate Earth Day with a scavenger hunt around the Museum, activities, songs, books, healthy snacks, and more!
Puppet Performance: Goldine’s Story
Enjoy a special shadow puppet performance about a young factory worker during the New York shirtwaist strike of 1909 and create a shadow puppet to take home.
Sense-ational Spring: Wreath Making
Use these elements as inspiration to create a seasonal wreath for your home!
Oyster Prints
Learn more about the many uses of this mollusk, including how it purifies New York Harbor today. Then cast your own oyster print from plaster to take home with you!
NYC Tots: Spring in the City
Register for six sessions that focus on exploration and discovery of spring in the city through song, play, and hands-on experiences!
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.
