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.
Finger Knitting Fun
Join us for a knitting circle to discover various techniques to make a special flower design to take home with you. We’ll provide the yarn!
Flower Power: Environmental Button Making
Design a button to express something about the environment that you are passionate about!
Pysanky Eggs for Easter
Learn about New York artist Roz Chast’s “egg-citing” twist on Ukrainian pysanky egg dying. Explore images of Chast’s New York-inspired designs and create a paper egg using a wax resist technique.
Herstory Day
Celebrate women’s history in New York City with Reshma Saujani, Founder of Girls Who Code, and Misty Copeland, American Ballet Theatre, Principal Dancer.
Family Party and Alexander Hamilton’s Disco
Join us for an evening of fun and history! Enjoy Alexander Hamilton’s Disco where young guests and their parents will groove to the music from the hit Broadway Hamilton and other pop dance masterpieces spun by our house DJ.
Public Art in the City: Mural Making
Explore photographs, models, and videos of works by artists such as Red Grooms, Christo and Jeanne-Claude, and Kara Walker. Collaborate with families to create a collective indoor mural!
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.
