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.
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.
Summer PD Workshop | City as Canvas: Graffiti Art in New York City
Learn and sketch with fellow educators as you explore highlights from the Museum’s graffiti art collection and learn the history of this homegrown artistic movement. 1.5 CTLE hours.
Past Event: Leading Tokyo Today: A Conversation with Tokyo Governor Yuriko Koike
A conversation with Governor Yuriko Koike of Tokyo, Japan.
Past Event: Moonlight & Movies | Krush Groove
Join us for an '80s hip-hop happy hour followed by an outdoor screening of the classic 1985 film Krush Groove.
Past Event: Cocktails & Culture: Swing Into Summer
An after-hours evening at the Museum with live music, art-making, and more!
MCNY Kids Create: Patterns and Rhythms in NYC Jazz
Dive into the world of jazz in New York City and create your own rhythms and patterns with New York-based musicians Sarah Elizabeth Charles and Victoria Smith.
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.
