Don’t forget to spring forward this Sunday! Before then, take a look at what’s on at the Museum this week and discover some of the bold, groundbreaking women in our collections and exhibitions whose stories we’ll be sharing this month.

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What to see: exhibition highlights

People, Place, and Influence: The Collection at 100

Now on view

Although the Museum’s directors were exclusively men until 2003, three women—Grace Mayer, V. Isabelle Miller, and May Davenport Seymour—had a profound influence on the Museum’s early years. These innovators shaped our collections and exhibitions for three decades. People, Place, and Influence delves into the Museum’s founding mission by highlighting key aspects of this unique collection. Visit the exhibition to see how Mayer, Miller, and Seymour helped shape our past and inform the stories we share about NYC today.

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What to do:

This Week—Three events on March 9:

Join us in the brand-new NYC Discovery Lab from 11am–4pm and learn how engineers have shaped New York into the city we know and love today! Families and children of all ages are invited to try their hands at urban planning and design a building. Manny Vega is at the Museum to lead Open Studio: Art Making with Manny Vega at 1pm. Create works that build off the themes in the exhibition Byzantine Bembé. Finally, explore how poetry can empower people to use their voice and teach activist legacies in Poetry as Pedagogy: Poetry at the Intersection of Feminism and Black Power at noon. This poetry workshop is geared towards educators, but open to all with an interest in the topic.

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What to discover:

DIGITAL CONTENT: VIDEO

What Makes New York New York: Roz Chast

Cartoonist Roz Chast, whose work is on view in This Is New York, speaks about the density of visual detail in NYC.

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MCNY BLOG: STORIES

Florence Mills: Broadway Sensation of the 1920s

Learn more about Florence Mills, one of nearly 70 New Yorkers you can “meet” in the exhibition New York at Its Core.

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