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.
Past: Event: Moonlight & Movies | In Search of Bengali Harlem
Join us for a screening of In Search of Bengali Harlem followed by a talkback with the directors.
Hidden Voices of New York City: Elsie Richardson Student Workshop (Grades 3-5) - 11:30am
Join us this Women's History Month as we learn more about life and organizing of Elsie Richardson, a community-based leader in the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn who created a model for community development corporations nationwide.
Hidden Voices of New York City: Elsie Richardson Student Workshop (Grades 3-5) - 9:30am
Join us this Women's History Month as we learn more about life and organizing of Elsie Richardson, a community-based leader in the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn who created a model for community development corporations nationwide.
Past Event: Cocktails & Culture: Sounds of Change
Celebrate the power of music and art to inspire social change. Enjoy sets by DJs Misbehaviour and Operator Emz plus a slideshow and Q&A with photographer Janette Beckman.
Picturing Black Femme and Queer Communities in New York Now
Join New York Now: Home exhibiting artists Naima Green, Nona Faustine, and Laylah Amatullah Barrayn for a conversation about photography as a creative apparatus for shifting dominant narratives, historical representations, and contemporary discourses about Black women, femme and queer folks, families, and communities in New York and beyond.
Movies for Minis: Annie (2014) - 1:30pm
Join us and sing along to memorable showtunes like “Tomorrow” and “It’s a Hard Knock Life” during our screening of the 2014 adaption of Annie starring Quvenzhané Wallis as Annie, Jamie Foxx, Rose Byrne, and Cameron Diaz for the March edition of Movies for Minis.
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.
