Past Events
Past Events
(SOLD OUT) The Museum Party
The Junior Board of the Museum of the City of New York invites you to The Museum Party for an evening of drinks and dancing.
Election Day PD: We Are What We Eat - Food and Culture in NYC
Join us to celebrate autumn by examining the history of New York city’s rich food traditions with a nourishing full-day workshop for educators.
The Activist's Media Handbook with David Fenton and Jamal Joseph
Join Progressive PR leader David Fenton and filmmaker, professor, and former Black Panther Jamal Joseph for a conversation about the power and limits of activism today.
Movies for Minis | Ghostbusters (1984)
Get into the spooky spirit with us for a screening of this 1984 supernatural classic, Ghostbusters! Along with the movie, we will also create glow in the dark mason jar skulls and ghosts!
Movies for Minis | Ghostbusters (1984)
Get into the spooky spirit with us for a screening of this 1984 supernatural classic, Ghostbusters! Along with the movie, we will also create glow in the dark mason jar skulls and ghosts!
Past Event: The New Yorkers with Sam Roberts
Sam Roberts presents his new book "The New Yorkers," the story of ordinary and extraordinary individuals who, in a city home to nearly one billion over the course of its lifetime, made their mark in some indelible way.
Past Event: Soul of the City | Music + Revolution: Greenwich Village in the 1960s
An evening of musical performances and stories celebrating the 1960s Village folk revival scene and curated by Richard Barone
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.
