Queens Museum

And because they have to be more experimental and more innovative, but also they can be.

I wrote a lot about the Brooklyn Museum and the Queens Museum, which I found incredibly innovative and incredibly connected to their communities in general.

you know, really meaningful ways.

And just as the museum that is there to express the power and the potency of the nation gets their message across, these museums, no one's expecting them to do that.

They have to want to come to Queens.

I think they were doing incredible things to bring the community in, to make the space much more inviting and like a community center.

And the Queens Museum even had a community organizer who actually went out to the – it's the most diverse borough in the city.

There are people from all different countries, so – He would go out to these, you know, street fairs or food markets or whatever, and say to people, you know, there's a museum down the street, you can come in and the museum is located in Flushing Meadow Park.

Queens Theater.

Queens Museum is over there.

Meadow Lake.

You see like the dragon boat stuff happening like by the lake as well.

I love this park.

I think it gives you a great view of quite a bit.

There's like Queens Museum is right here, our park next to it.

I don't know what you call the like tower things.

Again, crazy to have to go [laughs] into Queens during rush hour traffic.

Um, the show was at the Queens Museum.

Um, but it was such a beautiful, like, epic set, and I think, I think he introduced a lot of new ideas, and I think, you know, y- maybe he could have edited a couple looks, but I thought it was really strong, and it was really nice to see after he took a couple seasons off.

Um, you know, I'll just always be a huge fan of everything he does, but it did, it, this collection felt particularly...

I went on a trip.

When I was in first grade and I saw the panorama in the Queens Museum, and I remember talking to one of my classmates next to me, I said, you know what, I'm going to build one of these myself one day.

The model is 50 feet long and nearly 30 feet wide, covering all five boroughs and parts of New Jersey and Long Island, with more than 800,000 structures on it.

It's on display at the Museum of the City of New York, Julie Walker, New York.

His creation stretches fifty feet long and nearly thirty feet wide, squeezing all five boroughs, plus parts of New Jersey and Long Island into a tabletop city.

Mackin got the idea as a kid after seeing the massive New York model built for the 1964 World's Fair, now at the Queens Museum.

Decades later, he's built his own, complete with Yankee Stadium, the Brooklyn Bridge, the Statue of Liberty, and even the old Twin Towers.

It's now on display at the Museum of the City of New York.