The Queens Museum, formerly the Queens Museum of Art, is an art museum and educational center located in Flushing Meadows–Corona Park in the borough of Queens in New York City, United States. The museum was founded in 1972, and has among its permanent exhibitions, the Panorama of the City of New York, a room-sized scale model of the five boroughs originally built for the 1964 New York World's Fair, and repeatedly updated since then. It also has a large archive of artifacts from both the 1939 and 1964 World's Fairs, a selection of which is on display.
Queens Museum
Plaque outside the museum commemorating the UN General Assembly meeting on the site from 1946 to 1950
A lamp from the Tiffany collection
The repeatedly updated Panorama of the City of New York, as it appeared in 2011
Flushing Meadows–Corona Park
Flushing Meadows–Corona Park, often referred to as Flushing Meadows Park, or simply Flushing Meadows, is a public park in the northern part of Queens in New York City, New York, U.S. It is bounded by I-678 on the east, Grand Central Parkway on the west, Flushing Bay on the north, and Union Turnpike on the south. Flushing Meadows–Corona Park is the fourth-largest public park in New York City, with a total area of 897 acres (363 ha).
The Unisphere and New York State Pavilion
View of New York State Pavilion tower and the Unisphere in 2013
The park in fall
Aerial view of the Corona Ash Dumps, circa the early 1920s