Queens Museum
Museum in a 1939 World's Fair pavilion, holding the vast Panorama of the City of New York.
The museum occupies the New York City Building in Flushing Meadows Corona Park, put up by Aymar Embury II for the 1939-40 World's Fair as the city's own pavilion. Between 1946 and 1950 the hall served as the meeting place of the United Nations General Assembly, which voted here on the partition of Palestine. The building was adapted again for the 1964-65 World's Fair before opening as the Queens Center for Art and Culture in 1972. A reconstruction by Grimshaw Architects, completed in 2013, roughly doubled the gallery space and added a glazed western front.
The best known holding is the Panorama of the City of New York, a scale architectural model of all five boroughs commissioned by Robert Moses for the 1964 fair and built by Raymond Lester and Associates. Covering some 9,335 square feet, it represents around 895,000 structures at a scale of 1:1200 and is periodically updated. The museum also displays Tiffany glass from the Neustadt Collection, made in nearby Corona, alongside a changing programme of contemporary art reflecting the borough's immigrant communities.
Highlights
- Panorama of the City of New York, a 9,335-square-foot model of the five boroughs
- Neustadt Collection of Tiffany lamps and glass made in Corona
- Former United Nations General Assembly hall of 1946-50
- Relief map of the New York City water supply system
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