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Queens Museum
The
Queens Museum
, formerly the
Queens Museum of Art
, is an
art museum
and educational center located in
Flushing Meadows-Corona Park
in the
borough
of
Queens
in
New York City
,
United States
. The museum is housed in the New York City Building, which was built for the
1939 New York World's Fair
, and which then hosted the
United Nations General Assembly
from 1946 to 1950. The museum itself was founded in 1972, and has, among its permanent exhibitions, the Panorama of the City of New York, a scale model of the five boroughs built for the
1964 New York World's Fair
.
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