Queens Museum

1972 - present

Before it became the Queens Museum, the museum’s building was originally built for the 1939 World’s Fair in what is now Flushing Meadows Corona Park. The building opened as the New York City Pavilion. The building was one of the few World’s Fair structures intended to be permanent. After the 1939 World’s Fair, the building temporarily hosted the General Assembly of the United Nations from 1946 to 1950 before being renovated. It was utilized for the next World’s Fair in 1964-1965, where the building held a panorama of the city of New York, the largest model of New York City. In 1972, the Queens Museum of Art opened. 2013 brought new changes to the museum, like a name change to the Queens Museum and an expansion of their original building. Today, the Queens Museum still displays the New York Panorama and offers a rotating list of exhibitions. Currently, their long term exhibitions include the World's Fair and Tiffany glass collections.

Queens Museum Building now
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Details

Category
Museum
Audience
All Ages
Founder(s)
Queens Council on the Arts
Tags
unitednations, museum, arts

Location

  • 126 Flushing Meadows Corona Park Rd, Corona, NY 11368, USA
    1972 - present

References

  1. Panchyk, Richard. Hidden History of Queens. The History Press, 2018.
  2. “About the Queens Museum.” Queens Museum, queensmuseum.org/about/. Accessed 29 Apr. 2024.