Eat your heart out, King Kong and Godzilla!
As part of the book release for The Panorama of the City of New York, Queens Museum Assistant Director of Archives and Collections Lynn Maliszewski will lead a tour of the Panorama on Saturday, Dec. 21, at 2 pm.
That’s right. A journey through the roughly 9,335-square-foot, 900,000-structure, 100-plus-bridge, scaled-down architectural model of the five boroughs.
The event will also provide an opportunity to pick-up pre-orders of the book from The August Tree (the venue’s gift shop) or purchase $45 copies on-site.
Published in partnership with Scala Arts & Heritage Publishers to celebrate the 1964–1965 New York World’s Fair’s 60th anniversary, The Panorama of the City of New York features 160 pages of never-before-seen archival photographs alongside accessible texts about the model. World’s Fair aficionados and those who love New York City and mid-century design will love it.
The Panorama (exhibition) was one of the most successful attractions at the 1964 World’s Fair. Several million attendees enjoyed what was billed as an indoor helicopter tour of NYC. It’s now part of Queens Museum’s permanent collection.
The Panorama (book) was edited by Maliszewski, who has written for BOMB Magazine, The Brooklyn Rail, and Hyperallergic, and Governors Island Arts Head Curator Lauren Haynes.
Contributors include Kenneth T. Jackson, a professor emeritus of history at Columbia University and president emeritus of The New York Historical; Gallery 98 Founder Marc H. Miller; Valerie Paley, senior vice president and Sue Ann Weinberg Director of the Patricia D. Klingenstein Library at The New York Historical, and Vyjayanthi V. Rao, an anthropologist who teaches at the Yale School of Architecture.
Publication is possible thanks to Steven M. Polan and a grant from The Robert D.L. Gardiner Foundation of New York.
Pre-order a copy here. The books should ship by early January 2025 – two months before the March 11 release date.
Images: Queens Museum