Queens Museum
Queens Museum is a museum in New York, at a modelled elevation of 6 m. High Mountain stands 268 m to the northwest, 24 miles off. The nearest named place is Unisphere, a historic site 0.1 miles away. Bronx River Parkway passes 5.5 miles off.
The story
The Queens Museum (formerly the Queens Museum of Art) is an art museum and educational center at Flushing Meadows–Corona Park in Queens, New York City, United States. Established in 1972, the museum includes the Panorama of the City of New York, a room-sized scale model of the five boroughs of New York City built for the 1964 New York World's Fair. Its collection includes a large archive of artifacts from both the 1939 and 1964 World's Fairs, a selection of which is on display. As of 2026, Queens Museum's director is Debra Wimpfheimer. The museum's building was constructed for the 1939 New York World's Fair as the New York City Pavilion. The structure was used as an ice-skating and roller-skating rink during the 1940s and 1950s, except when it housed the United Nations General Assembly from 1946 to 1951. The building also served as the New York City Pavilion for the 1964 World's Fair and was preserved following the fair. The museum opened in the northern part of the building in November 1972. The museum was renovated in the late 1970s, during which a community gallery was added; another renovation in the 1990s added an entrance from the east. The museum was expanded significantly in the 2010s, during which the ice rink was closed. Another expansion was announced in the 2020s.
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Dates from 1972.
Wikidata Q1320229, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Height
- 15.3 m
What to expect
How to reach it
- 5.5 mi off the Bronx River Parkway
- 9.6 mi off the Palisades Scenic Byway, National
- 22.0 mi off the Merritt Parkway, National
Named places within 25 miles
- Unisphere: 0.1 mi
- Unisphere: 0.1 mi
- Unisphere: 0.1 mi
- Unisphere: 0.1 mi
- Observation Towers: 0.2 mi
- Sea Lion Store & Cafe: 0.1 mi
- Pudu: 0.1 mi
- Coyote: 0.1 mi
- Sea Lion: 0.1 mi
- Bison & Pronghorn: 0.1 mi
- Unisphere: 0.1 mi
- Free Form: 0.1 mi
- Freedom of the Human Spirit: 0.1 mi
- Soul in Flight: Arthur Ashe Memorial: 0.2 mi
- Turtle: 0.2 mi
- America-Israel Friendship Grove: 0.1 mi
- Arthur Ashe Sculpture Garden: 0.2 mi
- Althea Gibson Sculpture Garden: 0.3 mi
- Garden of Meditation: 0.4 mi
- Sparrow's Nest Community Gardens: 0.8 mi
- New York Hall of Science: 0.3 mi
- Louis Armstrong House Museum: 1.0 mi
- John Bowne House: 1.6 mi
- Lewis Howard Latimer House Museum: 1.7 mi
- Godwin-Ternbach Museum: 1.7 mi
- Corona Golf Playground: 0.4 mi
- William F Moore Park: 0.5 mi
- Greenstreets: 0.5 mi
- Louis Armstrong Playground: 0.8 mi
- Lewis Simeone Park: 0.8 mi
- Maspeth Plateau: 2.9 mi
- Laurel Hill: 4.1 mi
- Janes Hill: 5.7 mi
- Mount Morris: 6.5 mi
- Queens High Point: 6.7 mi
- Pugsley Creek Park: 4.7 mi
- Virginia Point: 5.8 mi
- WNYC Transmitter Park: 6.1 mi
- Spring Creek Park: 6.5 mi
- Hallett Nature Sanctuary: 6.9 mi
- Hallet’s Cove: 4.9 mi
- Parsons Beach: 5.2 mi
- Pebble Beach: 8.1 mi
- Canarsie Beach: 8.4 mi
- Gansevoort Peninsula Sand Bluff: 8.6 mi
- Street Seats: 5.3 mi
- Picnic Area on Marcus Garvey Pool Deck: 6.5 mi
- Pier 3 Greenway Terrace: 8.6 mi
- Pier 5 Uplands Seating Area: 8.8 mi
- Picnic Peninsula: 8.8 mi
- Coogan's Bluff: 7.7 mi
- Palisades: 8.7 mi
- Palisades: 9.3 mi
- Palisades: 10.3 mi
- Palisades: 11.2 mi
- The Loch: 6.8 mi
- Ambergill Falls: 8.5 mi
- Binnen Falls: 8.5 mi
- Fallkill Falls: 8.7 mi
- The Falls: 9.9 mi
- LeFrak Point Lighthouse: 9.7 mi
- Sands Point Lighthouse: 10.3 mi
- Execution Rocks Light: 10.8 mi
- Cold Spring Harbor Light: 20.8 mi
- Sandy Hook Lighthouse: 21.3 mi
- Vince Lombardi Service Area: 11.0 mi
- Larry Doby Service Area: 18.6 mi
- Tulip Springs: 23.3 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 24.1 miles of Queens Museum. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| High Mountain | NW 310° | 268 m | 24.0 mi |
| Mount Cecchino | NW 310° | 230 m | 23.9 mi |
| Mount Nebo | NNW 349° | 208 m | 21.4 mi |
| Stony Hill | WNW 283° | 179 m | 21.3 mi |
| Mayapple Hill | W 275° | 175 m | 23.2 mi |
| Kennelwood Hill | NNE 12° | 156 m | 22.7 mi |
| Kykuit Hill | N 0° | 147 m | 23.7 mi |
| Beaver Hill | N 3° | 140 m | 22.2 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:00 | 18:31 | 19:08 |
| June solstice | 05:25 | 19:49 | 20:31 |
| September equinox | 06:44 | 18:18 | 18:54 |
| December solstice | 07:17 | 15:48 | 16:32 |
Local time (America/New_York).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: Apr–Oct.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 34 | 36 | 43 | 54 | 64 | 73 | 79 | 78 | 71 | 60 | 49 | 40 |
| Precip in | 3.2 | 2.9 | 4.0 | 3.8 | 3.6 | 4.0 | 4.3 | 4.4 | 3.9 | 3.8 | 3.2 | 4.1 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Laguardia AP, 3 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikipediaWikidataOfficial siteOpenStreetMap element way/284856409
Day trips start here
- Queens/Flushing-Northeast · 2 mi
- Queens/Jackson Heights · 2 mi
- Queens/Forest Park · 3 mi
- Queens/Jamaica · 4 mi
- Brooklyn/Williamsburg · 5 mi
- Queens · 5 mi
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