Queens Museum Panorama of the City of New York

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World’s Fair exhibit architectural model museum exhibit scale model

The Queens Museum Panorama of the City of New York is a massive, meticulously detailed scale model of all five boroughs, originally created for the 1964 World’s Fair and now serving as a unique, immersive representation of the city’s built environment.

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Label	Occurrences
Queens Museum Panorama of the City of New York canonical	1

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Predicate	Object
instanceOf	World’s Fair exhibit ⓘ architectural model ⓘ museum exhibit ⓘ scale model ⓘ
areaCovered	approximately 9,335 square feet ⓘ
commissionedBy	New York City Department of Parks and Recreation ⓘ surface form: New York City Department of Parks Robert Moses ⓘ
country	United States of America ⓘ surface form: United States
createdFor	New York World's Fair ⓘ surface form: 1964 New York World’s Fair
depicts	Brooklyn ⓘ Manhattan ⓘ New York City ⓘ Queens ⓘ Staten Island ⓘ The Bronx ⓘ all five boroughs of New York City ⓘ
designedBy	Raymond Lester & Associates ⓘ
exhibitedAt	Queens Museum ⓘ
function	educational exhibit ⓘ representation of New York City’s built environment ⓘ tourist attraction ⓘ
heritage	iconic artifact of the 1964 New York World’s Fair ⓘ
lighting	simulated day and night cycles (in some periods of exhibition) ⓘ
locatedIn	Flushing Meadows–Corona Park ⓘ New York City ⓘ Queens ⓘ
location	Queens Museum ⓘ
materialUsed	paint ⓘ plastic ⓘ wood ⓘ
name	Panorama of the City of New York ⓘ
notableFeature	includes every building in New York City constructed before the early 1990s (with later updates for some structures) ⓘ includes miniature representations of major bridges and highways ⓘ John F. Kennedy International Airport ⓘ surface form: includes model of John F. Kennedy International Airport LaGuardia Airport ⓘ surface form: includes model of LaGuardia Airport visitors view the model from elevated walkways ⓘ
numberOfBuildingsDepicted	over 800,000 ⓘ
ownership	Queens Museum ⓘ
scale	1:1200 ⓘ
subjectOf	documentary films about New York City and the World’s Fair ⓘ museum tours ⓘ scholarly articles on urban representation ⓘ
updatedFor	1970s urban changes ⓘ 1992 model update ⓘ 2009 model update ⓘ
worldsFairPavilion	New York State Pavilion ⓘ surface form: New York City Pavilion
yearCompleted	1964 ⓘ

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Flushing Meadows–Corona Park → hasLandmark → Queens Museum Panorama of the City of New York ⓘ