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.
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!
Fun with Fashion: Design a New York Look
Get inspired by New York designers such as Mary Quant, Geoffrey Beene, and Pauline Trigère, then use fabric swatches to create a 3-dimensional sketch of your very own design!
Sculpting Like a Silversmith
Get inspired by newly commissioned works by leading metalworkers, then learn some metalwork techniques to create a work of your own!
Hidden Figures: Paper Doll Making
Celebrate the New York City women who have championed for change and make your own activist paper doll with a message for change!
LGBTQ Teen Summit
Celebrate the intersections of LGBTQ culture, history, and art amongst peers and allies during a prideful day for teens and youth.
Sword Dance Family Performance
Join us for this special free performance as part of the 33rd annual New York Sword Dance Festival!
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.