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.
“HAO BANG-AH!” Hand Puppet Program for Families with Chinese Theatre Works
Celebrate the Mid-Autumn Moon Festival and experience the art of hand puppetry and live music in this special performance by Chinese Theatre Works.
Past Event: Cocktails & Culture: STUDIO 1220
Get ready to hit the dance floor at djFRiTZo's '80s Music Video Jam, share your poetry and music at the MC'NY Poets' Café, and more!
“Back to School” Puppet Program for Families with NYC Kids Project
Join this interactive, outdoor performance led by NYC Kids Project to explore feelings about going back to school and reconnecting with classmates.
“Back to School” Puppet Program for Families with NYC Kids Project
Join this interactive, outdoor performance led by NYC Kids Project to explore feelings about going back to school and reconnecting with classmates.
Video: Twenty Years Later: Remembering 9/11 Through Documentary Film
We reflect on the twentieth anniversary of September 11, 2001 in this screening of two recent documentary films, followed by a panel with the filmmakers.
Past Event: Cocktails & Culture: Legends of '80s Hip-Hop
Celebrate the best of '80s Hip-Hop outdoors at the Museum with DJs, an open mic poets' café, and more!
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.
