Queens Museum

The Queens Museum in New York City's borough of Queens serves as a cultural center and community museum for the borough. It is housed in the New York City Building, a historic exhibition hall originally built for the 1939/40 World's Fair. From 1946 to 1950, the building served as the temporary home of the UN General Assembly, before it was renovated in 1964 as a pavilion for the next World's Fair. Today the museum is best known for its extraordinary exhibits, including a detailed relief map of the city's water supply system and the Panorama of the City of New York. This scale-model, three-dimensional replica shows all five boroughs with hundreds of thousands of buildings and even simulates the change from day to night. The collection is rounded out by a significant collection of Tiffany glass. The museum also presents rotating exhibitions on environmental and human rights topics. You can experience the architecture near Flushing Meadows Park, which is also home to the iconic Unisphere globe.