Queens Museum of Art
(718) 592-9700
New York City Building, Flushing Meadow Corona Park
New York,
NY
11368
40.7501
-73.8525
Neighborhood: North Corona
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Building History
The museum has a respectable permanent art collection and often interesting exhibitions--all of which is housed in the New York City Building, used not only for the 1939 and 1964 World's Fairs but also during the late '40s as a meeting place for the United Nations General Assembly.
Highlights
Commissioned in the '60s by public-works czar Robert Moses in order to more efficiently plot his urban-renewal strategies, the Panorama accurately portrays the city as of 1992, right down to the last alley. There is also a permanent installation of 20 Tiffany lamps--including an early lamp shade produced in Corona in the 1890s--geometrically designed lamps, naturalistic Wisteria table lamps, and the never before exhibited Yellow Oriental Poppy.
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Know Before You Go:
Once you get off the subway, it's a 10-minute walk through Corona Park to get there--just follow the yellow signs.
