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.
NYC Love Stories: Valentine’s Day
Join us for a special family scavenger hunt throughout to find objects such as the original “I ❤ NY” sketch.
Wild Style Graffiti Writing
Explore graffiti styles throughout New York City history in New York at Its Core. Design your own signature style of writing!
Love Yourself Project 10,000 Hearts Campaign
The Love Yourself Project uses a simple yet beautiful medium, the origami heart, to invite people to participate in the thought provoking experience of asking: “What do you love about yourself?”
POSTPONED - Studio in a School Educator Open House
Educators, students, families, and guardians are invited to join Studio in a School and Museum of the City of New York staff for a tour of the exhibition, The City and the Young Imagination.
Paint like Pollock
Discover artworks by some of New York City’s most iconic artists and create a painting of your own using various pouring and dripping techniques!
Andy Warhol: Printmaking Workshop
Learn about the work of artist Andy Warhol, which brings to life the queer creative networks of New York in the 20th century.
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.
