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.
Partner Event | Everything for Dawn: A Serial Video Opera
Join Experiments in Opera, a New York City-based company, for a sneak peek at their epic video opera Everything for Dawn. Written over three years by 15 writers and composers, this 10-episode serial represents a radical new approach to opera.
Past Event: Cocktails & Culture: Fresh Latinx Beats
Party to the best salsa, bachata, dembow, and cumbia anthems with DJ UndocuBougie and La Manga at our April edition of Cocktails & Culture!
MC’NY Poets Café: Writers Workshop
Join the new adult writers workshops led by Urban Word poets and writers to develop and hone your poetic voice!
Video: “Bill Cunningham Was There” with John Kurdewan and Steven Stolman
A conversation with authors John Kurdewan and Steven Stolman about their new book that celebrates the legacy of New York Times photographer Bill Cunningham.
Rising Tide Tour with Kadir van Lohuizen
A free, drop-in tour of Rising Tide with photographer Kadir van Lohuizen.
Partner Event | Community Board 11 East Harlem Earth Day Conference
The CB11 Earth Day Conference will convene residents and community based organizations in order to encourage alignment towards the advancement of the quality of life in East Harlem.
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.
