Queens Museum
The Queens Museum in New York City partly fulfills the tasks of a local museum for this big city. Its name is derived from its location in the New York borough of Queens . The building was previously used as an exhibition hall at two world expositions in NYC.
collection
In addition to modern art, the collection also includes two large-scale models of the city's infrastructure:
- A large-scale model relief of the New York long-distance water supply (The Relief Map of the New York City Water Supply System; in short: The Water System Model , created 1939)
- The 1964 model of a full-scale and three-dimensional panorama of the City of New York with all five New York districts (1: 1200). Buildings that have since been added have been added. There should be around 900,000 house models on it. The model also works with a daylight effect.
The Tiffany glass collection of the Neustadt Collection of Tiffany glass (arts and crafts) , which has been on display since 1995, is also important for this technique .
Every six months, changing exhibitions on topics of environmental protection and human rights take place.
Location, place, environment
The museum is located south of LaGuardia Airport and Flushing Meadows sports facilities (such as Citi Field ) on the western edge of Flushing Meadows – Corona Park on Avenue of the States . It is surrounded by the oval of streets on United Nations Avenue and is near the intersection of the Long Island Expressway (Interstate 495) and Grand Central Parkway . The 43 m high steel globe Unisphere by Gilmore David Clarke (1964) stands in a fountain basin on the line of sight from the hall to the east . Also nearby is the small Queens Zoo.
History of the building
Today's Queens Museum is located in the New York Exhibition Building for the 1939/1940 World's Fair (NYWF) , an exhibition hall that the architect Aymar Embury II built for the 1939/40 World's Fair . Today, after various conversions, it is mostly called the New York City Building .
From 1946 to 1950, until the completion of the new UN center, it was the temporary location of the General Assembly of the United Nations (UN General Assemblies). Here, for example, UNICEF was founded and the partition of Korea and the former British mandate of Palestine was decided.
Until 1964, the building was renovated according to plans by the architect Daniel Chait in order to use it again for a world exhibition. It became the New York City Pavilion for the 1964 World's Fair . It was here that the Panorama of the City of New York was shown for the first time , which, added, is still a center of attraction there. It is the largest three-dimensional city model in terms of area. In 2017 it shows the model of the WTC towers destroyed in 2001 because of the new buildings still under construction .
In 1972 the house was converted into the Queens Center for Art and Culture , later renamed the Queens Museum of Art .
The renovation in 1994 by the architect Rafael Viñoly included galleries, classrooms, offices and one half as an ice-skating hall.
In 2009, this usage began to be reversed. As a result, the museum again has an area of 9,300 m². So it was reopened in November 2013.
See also
- 1939/40 and 1964/1965
- in the list of world exhibitions
- Robert Moses (1888–1981; term of office until 1968) Senior City Official a. a. for the urban planning of the world expositions that took place in New York City in 1939 and 1964; and the city's parks.
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New York City Department of Environmental Protection (municipal unit for water supply)
- Compare also the description of the Croton aqueduct (in operation from 1842 to 1965)
- The largest known collection of Tiffany lamps is also in NY at the New York Historical Society
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Brady Sears: The Queens Museum Remixes Nonstop Metropolis. (An illustrated walk through the rooms. Artreport from March 16, 2017, engl.)
Coordinates: 40 ° 44 ′ 42 " N , 73 ° 51 ′ 2" W.