Past Exhibitions

Get Tickets for "He Built This City: Joe Macken's Model"

1220 Fifth Ave at 103rd St., HOURS: Mon-Fri 10-5 | Sat-Sun 10-6

Franking Manning and Norma Miller dancing in front of a crowd.

April 11, 2025 - February 22, 2026

Urban Stomp

Immerse yourself in the vibrant dances that have shaped—and been shaped by—the city’s ever-changing cultural landscape. 

Painting of person sitting on M Train going over the Williamsburg Bridge

May 26, 2023 - July 21, 2024

This Is New York

In honor of the Museum’s centennial, this exhibition, which spans a full city block, is organized around the types of urban spaces where the stories of New York are told.

A man and a woman stand on a lawn next to a small replica of the Statue of Liberty.

March 10 - August 27, 2023

New York Now: Home

The first in an ongoing series of triennial photography exhibitions that will engage themes and issues of the contemporary city.

Paul Strand, From the Viaduct, 125th Street, New York, 1915, Photogravure

February 18, 2022 - January 9, 2023

Celebrating the City

A moving celebration of the power of photography to capture New York and New Yorkers featuring Robert Frank and William Klein.

New York from the marshes around the Hackensack River in New Jersey]

April 16, 2021 - May 1, 2022

Rising Tide

Documentary photographer Kadir van Lohuizen illustrates the dramatic consequences of rising sea levels worldwide.

Members of the Park Slope community on the street playing with bubbles.

March 11, 2020 - April 18, 2021

The City Within

See the complex beauty of Brooklyn through the work of celebrated photographers Alex Webb and Rebecca Norris Webb.

June 6 - December 31, 2019

PRIDE

Photographs of Stonewall and Beyond by Fred W. McDarrah

June 6 - December 1, 2019

The Voice of the Village

Fred W. McDarrah Photographs

Traveling

In the Dugout with Jackie Robinson

Take a behind-the-scenes look at baseball legend Jackie Robinson, including never before seen images of the Brooklyn Dodgers player, the team, and his family.

A Chinese woman stirs food in a bowl while watching a Chinese soap opera. She is sitting on a bed in an apartment.

October 26, 2018 - March 24, 2019

Interior Lives

Contemporary Photographs of Chinese New Yorkers

Taken in a mirror’s reflection, a woman uses a compact mirror to apply makeup, while photographer stands behind her watching

Traveling

Through a Different Lens

Explore the compelling and unusual photographs of New York City created by legendary filmmaker Stanley Kubrick during his time as a staff photographer at Look magazine.