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Thursday, November 3, 2016

Scale Model of NYC Is the Biggest Architectural Model

This Scale Model
of NYC
Is the Biggest Architectural Model in the World
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The Queens Museum in NYC is home to the largest architectural model in the world.
It's called The Panorama
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The Queens Museum of Art most famous asset is its 9,335-square-foot scale model of New York City, originally built for the 1964 World’s Fair. 
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The Panorama of the City of New York has 895,000 structures, replicating every street, bridge and skyscraper in the five boroughs.

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It is the physical and sentimental centerpiece of the museum, located on the old fairgrounds in Flushing Meadows Corona Park, next to the Unisphere, the enormous stainless-steel globe that was also built for the fair and has become an unofficial symbol of Queens.


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