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.
Community Mural
Explore notable New Yorkers who have worked to improve their communities in New York at Its Core and Activist New York. Then work with others to make a community-inspired indoor mural!
Museum in the Park: Make a Machine
Explore notable and innovative machines from our exhibition New York at Its Core. Then build a machine of your own!
Build a Bridge for the City
Learn about the many types of bridges in the city and discuss some examples, such as the Brooklyn Bridge, in New York at Its Core. Design and build a model bridge of your own!
Graffiti Mural
Explore graffiti styles throughout New York City history in New York at Its Core. Then design your own signature style of writing to contribute to our graffiti mural!
Museum in the Park: Salsa Soundmakers
Explore how immigrant and migrant communities in New York City developed salsa into a global phenomenon. Then create a salsa soundmaker of your own!
Liberty Body Drawings
Discover how the Statue of Liberty became an icon of national freedom in New York at Its Core. Create a body drawing incorporating the symbolism of this inspiring statue!
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.
