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.
Behind-the-Scenes at the Museum: Puppets and Activism in New York City
Create your own puppet and learn about the intersections between puppets and activism.
Past Event: Moonlight & Movies | The Muppets Take Manhattan
Join us for a special screening of "The Muppets Take Manhattan" at MCNY!
SOLD OUT! Opening Preview for Puppets of New York
Join us in a happy hour celebration of NYC puppets featuring a performance by The International Puppet Fringe!
MCNY Kids Create: Looking Close and Building Tiny with the Stettheimer Dollhouse
Combine art and engineering in this virtual intergenerational STEAM education program as you draw inspiration from the famous Stettheimer dollhouse to design your own miniature world.
Canceled: Uptown Bounce (Back) 2021
Uptown Bounce is back and in person! The Museum of the City of New York, El Museo del Barrio, and The Africa Center are delighted to co-present our popular, annual summer block party.
MCNY Kids Create: City as Canvas - Graffiti Art in New York City
Recommended for ages 7 and up. Sketch your own ideas as you explore the Museum’s graffiti art collection and hear about the NYC "writers” who made graffiti into a worldwide phenomenon.
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.
