Working hours:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Mon-Tue\u00a0Closed<\/p>\n Wed-Fri 12 am-5 pm<\/p>\n Sat-Sun 11 am \u2013\u00a05 pm<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n The Queens Museum\u00a0\u2013\u00a0<\/strong>New York City Building<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n The New York World\u2019s Fair 1939-1940<\/strong><\/p>\n The New York City Building was built to house the New York City Pavilion at the 1939 World\u2019s Fair, where it featured displays about municipal agencies. The building was centrally located, being directly adjacent to the great icons of the Fair, the Trylon and Perisphere, and it was one of the few buildings created for the Fair that were intended to be permanent. It is now the only surviving building from the 1939 Fair. After the World\u2019s Fair, the building became a recreation center for the newly created Flushing Meadows Corona Park. The north side of the building, housed a roller rink and the south side, an ice rink.<\/p>\n The building\u2019s architect, Aymar Embury III, was one of Robert Moses\u2019 favorite designers and his other work includes the Central Park Zoo and the Triborough Bridge. He designed the building in a modern classical style, which was perhaps a little ironic given that the theme of the 1939 Fair was the \u201cWorld of Tomorrow.\u201d The exterior of the building featured colonnades behind which were vast expanses of glass brick punctuated by limestone pilasters trimmed in dark polished granite. The solid corner blocks were also constructed from limestone.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n United Nations<\/strong><\/p>\n One of the proudest periods in the history of the New York City Building was from 1946 to 1950 when it housed the General Assembly of the newly formed United Nations. Until the site of the UN\u2019s current home in Manhattan became available, Flushing Meadows Corona Park was being considered as the organization\u2019s future permanent headquarters site. During the early post-war years, almost every world leader spent time in the New York City Building and many important decisions, including the partition of Palestine and the creation of UNICEF, were made here.<\/p>\n The presence of the United Nations General Assembly in the building required substantial interior renovation and the addition of a sizable annex on the north side of the building housing the delegates\u2019 dining room, the public cafeteria and an exhibition hall. In the interior, the skating and roller rinks were covered and, in the space now occupied by the Queens Museum\u2019s sky-lit galleries, the General Assembly was laid out. Offices, meeting rooms, translation, press, radio and television facilities, and other services were located through the rest of the building. When the United Nations left, the addition was removed and the New York City Building again became a recreation site for the Park and the skating and roller rinks were restored to the old use.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n The New York World\u2019s Fair 1964-1965<\/strong><\/p>\n In preparation for the 1964 World\u2019s Fair, the New York City Building was again renovated. Under the architect Daniel Chait, a scalloped entry awning was added to the east fa\u00e7ade with \u00a0concrete brise-soleil used to screen all of the areas of glass brick. The building once again housed the New York City Pavilion and the most dramatic display there was the Panorama of the City of New York. Built by Robert Moses for the 1964 Fair, in part as a celebration of the City\u2019s municipal infrastructure, this 9,335 square foot architectural model includes every single building in all five boroughs. The Panorama remains in the building and open to the public as part of the Museum\u2019s collection.<\/p>\n As in 1939, the New York City Building was at the center of the 1964 World\u2019s Fair. It was (and still is) adjacent to the 140 foot high, 900,000 lb. steel Unisphere\u2014that great symbol of the Fair\u2019s theme of \u201cPeace through Understanding.\u201d After the Fair the Panorama remained open to the public and the south side of the building returned to being an ice rink.<\/p>\n In 1972, the north side of the New York City Building was handed to the Queens Museum (or as it was then known, the Queens Center for Art and Culture). Almost twenty years after it opened, the Museum undertook its first major renovation. In 1994, Rafael Vi\u00f1oly significantly redesigned the existing exhibition spaces and the Panorama\u2019s gallery.\u00a0 Adding a ramp with glass landing platforms, visitors could now experience the Panorama in it\u2019s open air.<\/p>\n The south side of the Museum remained an ice skating rink until 2008, when the Museum was closed for an even larger renovation. It was expanded and redesigned by\u00a0Grimshaw Architects\u00a0in collaboration with\u00a0Ammann & Whitney, who created the open and soaring design you now can see today. In 2013, the Museum reopened with more than double the amount of exhibition space, as well as new entrances, an atrium, and a massive skylight.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Queens Museum Today<\/strong><\/p>\n In November 2013, the Queens Museum ushered in a new phase in the institution\u2019s history, completing an expansion project that gives New York a spectacular new art venue, and provides the Museum with the space necessary to better serve its diverse communities.\u00a0 Since the Museum\u2019s founding in 1972, there had been an underlying goal of occupying the entirety of the New York City Building, and now, with the design insight of Grimshaw Architects, the new Queens Museum has realized that ambition, doubling in size to 105,000 square feet, and been transformed into a nexus where the art world and real world can engage in open, meaningful dialogue.<\/p>\n In conceiving of the design for the new space, the Museum\u2019s aspirations were clear: a building that embodies the overarching philosophy of openness, integrating with Flushing Meadows Corona Park on the east and appearing vibrant and inviting from the Grand Central Parkway on the west. \u00a0The interior should provide room for the display and care of growing permanent collections, spacious galleries for temporary exhibitions, and flexible and welcoming educational and public programming spaces to serve the Museum\u2019s myriad communities.<\/p>\n With daylight streaming into the new Museum through a series of skylights, and with soaring 48 foot ceilings, the entire space rings with an airiness that fits in well with its setting in a park.\u00a0 A suite of six galleries, ranging from 800 to 2,400 square feet, allows for concurrent exhibitions of different scales and flexible curatorial choices. The galleries ring a large central sunken living room where experiences and ideas are shared, playing a role similar to that of a town square.\u00a0 Hanging above is a stunning light reflecting lantern composed of glass ribs that appear to float beneath a large skylight.\u00a0 Not only a visual focal point, this crucial piece allows visitors in the sunken living room directly underneath a glimpse of the sky above while managing the trajectory of natural light entering the space.\u00a0 The surrounding galleries are further shaded from this natural light by a series of strategically aligned louvers acting as a ceiling.\u00a0 Galleries house a varied temporary exhibition program, as well as two long-term installations \u2013 highlights and changing exhibitions from the Neustadt Collection of Tiffany Glass, and\u00a0From Watersheds to Faucets: The Marvel of the NYC Water Supply System<\/i>, a partnership with the NYC Department of Environmental Protection.<\/p>\n The Museum\u2019s signature Panorama now enjoys a picture window entrance from the new atrium, and the new Shelley and Donald Rubin Gallery offers a space for collections to be exhibited, revealing not only the works of art, but the collector\u2019s bent.\u00a0 Rounding out the first floor are a new Museum shop and caf\u00e9, adjacent to the Museum\u2019s new front porch, and extended outdoor area with twelve crape myrtle trees and outdoor seating for museum-goers and park users alike, leading to a large lawn for passive recreation and outdoor programming.<\/p>\n A fluid glass staircase that responds to the existing geometry of the building invites visitors to the second floor where gathering spaces overlooking both the park and galleries lead to the Museum\u2019s new World\u2019s Fair Visible Storage and Gallery, education workshop spaces, the Museum\u2019s theater, Community Partnership Gallery and flexible event and gathering spaces.\u00a0 Also on the second floor are the administrative offices.<\/p>\n A new ceremonial entry, visible from the adjacent Grand Central Parkway, beckons visitors to the site and serves as a gateway to the entire park beyond.\u00a0 This new west fa\u00e7ade is marked by a sculptural metal entry canopy and a series of glass panels spanning the length of the building. \u00a0This 220\u2019 x 27\u2019 glass fa\u00e7ade, backlit by programmable LED lighting, serves not only as a beacon for the Museum, but also as a dynamic new canvas for commissioned works of art in the future.<\/p>\n A final piece of the puzzle is the Museum\u2019s new artist studio wing.\u00a0 Occupying the northern side of the Museum\u2019s first floor, nine artists\u2019 studios ranging in size from 350 to 700 sq. ft. are home base for the recently initiated Queens Museum Open A.I.R. Program (Artists in Residence).<\/p>\n Today, the new Queens Museum is the marriage of form and function, where an expansive open light-filled space houses ambitious exhibitions, forward-thinking educational initiatives, and community-minded programming that engages myriad constituencies, be they local residents, international tourists, school children, artists, individuals with special needs, families, seniors, recent immigrants, and longtime New Yorkers.<\/p>\n Information and photos taken from the site: queensmuseum.org<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Address: New York City Building Flushing Meadows Corona Park Queens, NY Phone: +1 718 592 9700 Working hours:\u00a0 Mon-Tue\u00a0Closed Wed-Fri 12 am-5 pm Sat-Sun 11 am \u2013\u00a05 pm Building History The Queens Museum\u00a0\u2013\u00a0New York City Building The New York World\u2019s Fair 1939-1940 The New York City Building was built to house […]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3810,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-museums"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.camegone.com\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2550","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.camegone.com\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.camegone.com\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.camegone.com\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.camegone.com\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2550"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/usa.camegone.com\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2550\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2553,"href":"https:\/\/usa.camegone.com\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2550\/revisions\/2553"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.camegone.com\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.camegone.com\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.camegone.com\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.camegone.com\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"http:\/\/usa.camegone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/05\/QUEENS_MUSEUM_100913_017-1200x800-1.jpg\")
<\/p>\nBuilding History<\/h1>\n