The Jazz Museum in Harlem may not have a permanent home yet, but that’s not stopping its organizers from playing a lively role in the city’s cultural life. Tomorrow night at Riverside Church, the executive director of the Jazz Museum, Loren Schoenberg, will host a free event that showcases the Tony-Awardwinner Frankie Manning, whose autobiography, “Frankie Manning: Ambassador of Lindy Hop,” has just been published by Temple University Press.

Mr. Schoenberg will interview Mr. Manning, who in the 1930s was the chief choreographer for Whitey’s Lindy Hoppers, a professional group that performed at the Savoy Ballroom on Lenox Avenue. The interview will be followed by a book signing, a free swing lesson, and performances.

The Jazz Museum was founded in 1998 by the Washington lawyer and former Nixon White House staffer Leonard Garment; Mr. Schoenberg, a conductor, saxophonist, and scholar of jazz, became executive director in 2001. The board includes the artistic director of Jazz at Lincoln Center, Wynton Marsalis, and the documentary film producer Ken Burns.

Although the museum is still looking for a home, it already runs popular events around the city, including Jazz for Curious Listeners, a free course taught by Mr. Schoenberg; Harlem Speaks, a lecture series that has featured people including Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Rep. Charles Rangel; and Harlem in the Himalayas, a Friday night concert series held at the Rubin Museum. Tomorrow night’s event, which is being cosponsored by Yehoodi.com, an online network of swing dancers, is the prototype for a new series called Jazz for Curious Dancers, Mr. Schoenberg said.

The Jazz for Curious Listeners series has been held until now at a church on Madison Avenue and 126th Street; this summer, it will move to the Harlem School of the Arts.

The Jazz Museum’s holdings include items from Ralph Ellison’s music collection and what Mr. Schoenberg called “a major archive of [Duke] Ellingtonia.” The museum is looking at two locations: a brownstone on Lenox Avenue and a former firehouse on East 125th Street. “These are just two options,” Mr. Schoenberg said. “In a real estate market as fluid as 21st-century Harlem, in a jazz-like fashion, we’re keeping our options open.”

The museum is also part of a bid by Danforth Development Partners to renovate the Victoria Theater, an old vaudeville house down the block from the Apollo Theater on 125th Street. The Jazz Museum would get between 10,000 and 20,000 square feet of exhibition space. The building would also include two theaters — to be used by the Classical Theater of Harlem, the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company, and the Harlem School of the Arts — as well as a new Savoy Ballroom and banquet space, and a 90-room Ian Schrager hotel. The Harlem Community Development Corporation, the state board in charge of the theater, is choosing between Danforth’s proposal and another developer’s; the decision is now several years behind schedule.

Asked if there was a timeline for finding a home, Mr. Schoenberg said, “As soon as possible. But, you know, if you study the gestation period of great cultural institutions, it ranges from a few years to a few decades. We’re really in it for the long haul.”