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Inside the Queens Museum in New York City there is another New York City. It is a 50-year-old model, or a kind of copy, of the town in which every street, building and park was reproduced in small.
The so-called Panorama of the City of New York was built as an exhibit for the New York Worlds Fair in 1964. Over time, artists added to the model. Now it represents the way the city looked in 1992.
The model is huge. It covers 870 square meters. Visitors to the Panorama observe from beside and above it as day turns to night every 20 minutes. Little lights shine from buildings until the morning light appears.
Iwasaki is the museum exhibitions organizer and director. She says the Panorama presents an unusual problem even though it is the museums main appeal.
No matter what fantastic exhibition you think you put outside everybody goes back to the Panorama and goes wow!
Currently the Queens Museum is celebrating the 50th anniversary of the fair and the Panorama. The show is called Bringing the World Into the World. Ms. Iwasaki said she decided not to try to compete with the Panorama. Instead she made it part of the exhibition.
The show includes the museums largest piece, the Panorama. It also includes its smallest piece: a microscopic reproduction of the Queens Museum itself. Artist and engineer Jessica Rylan created that piece using nanotechnology. It is just 120 micrometers long and it cannot be seen by visitors. Guess why? It is hidden inside the model of the Queens Museum itself within Panorama of New York City.
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