Exhibitions
Exhibitions at NYC Health + Hospitals play a vital role in promoting healthcare accessibility and raising awareness of critical public health resources. Exhibitions also promote community engagement through artworks and themes that reflect the people and neighborhoods where they are placed. By presenting exhibitions both onsite and through partnerships with institutions like Carnegie Hall’s Resnick Education Wing, Arts in Medicine expands access, deepens impact, and positions the arts as essential to inclusive, community-based care.
In June 2026, Arts in Medicine in collaboration with the Museum of the City of New York, will open Another Wonderland: Abram Champanier’s Alice Mural.
Another Wonderland
Abram Champanier’s Alice Mural
The Museum of the City of New York, in collaboration with New York City Health + Hospitals Arts in Medicine and the Laurie M. Tisch Illumination Fund, presents Another Wonderland: Abram Champanier’s Alice Mural.
The exhibition celebrates the rescue and decades-long restoration of Alice of Wonderland Visiting New York, a major New Deal–era mural cycle created for the children’s ward at Gouverneur Hospital between 1938 and 1940. Commissioned through the Works Progress Administration’s Federal Art Project, the sixteen-panel series reimagined Lewis Carroll’s beloved characters exploring 1930s New York City—from the subway and Brooklyn Bridge to Coney Island and Central Park—bringing color, fantasy, and joy to a space dedicated to healing.
After decades of painstaking restoration, and along with two faithfully reproduced panels and a selection of archival photographs, the mural panels will be on view together for the first time in nearly fifty years. The exhibition also situates the mural within the broader story of the WPA and its role in transforming public spaces across New York City.
The Museum and its partners will publish an illustrated exhibition catalogue with Marquand Books, alongside a slate of related programs that examine the intersections of public art, civic history, community well-being, and storytelling.
Behind the Surface: Conserving WPA Murals
Thursday, June 11, 2026, 6:30 pm
Get an intimate look at the decades-long conservation and restoration of Abram Champanier’s Alice Mural, a major New Deal–era mural commissioned through the Works Progress Administration’s Federal Art Project. This discussion will trace the mural’s journey from the children’s ward at Gouverneur Hospital—where it brought color, fantasy, and joy to a space dedicated to healing—to its return to public view in Another Wonderland: Abram Champanier’s Alice Mural at the Museum of the City of New York.
Our Wonderland: Family Day for NYC Health + Hospitals staff
Saturday, July 11, 2026, 9:00 am – 1:00 pm
Step through the looking glass at the Museum of the City of New York on July 11th for Another Wonderland — an exclusive, VIP event for NYC Health + Hospitals staff and their families! From 9 AM to 1 PM, explore Alice’s journey through New York, and create your own wonderland: sculpt your own Mad Hatter hat, paint tea cups, and snap a Polaroid in a fantastical Wonderland photo booth. As a final hoorah join a Mad Hatter parade with live musicians through the museum.
Current Exhibitions
Learn more about this exhibition: “Love is the Drug”: We Belong Here at NYC Health + Hospitals/Gotham Health, NYC – ArteFuse
Learn more about this exhibition: NYC Health + Hospitals Presents First-Ever Exhibition to Showcase Art from Both Rikers Island and Its Own Collection
Exhibition Strategy
Art created in any form under any circumstance has this unique ability to reach down really deeply and open us up; and as our patients prove, make us feel free…without Arts in Medicine’s partnership, we would not have been able to do exhibitions like [Creating Within and Bringing it Back.]Dr. Patsy Yang
Senior Vice President,
Correctional Health Services
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