In between Christmas and New Year’s, relaxing and productivity, I always try to have a couple fun days with friends.  One of the days we headed west to the Queens Museum at Flushing Meadows, which is the home of both the 1939/1940 and the 1964 New York World’s Fair. As a plus-size, over-50 woman, visiting museums is always a popular activity.

Here’s how old I am! I went to the 1964 World’s Fair. Well, I was four years old and my sister took me. The only memory I think I have is of the President Lincoln audio-animatronics exhibit. But you know how sometimes what you think are memories of an actual thing, are actually just a memory of having seen it somewhere else at a later point in time, like on tv. So I’m not sure. I’ll have to ask my sister if we even went to that exhibit!

The Queens Museum was much nicer than I expected. I’ve only ever run inside to use the bathroom when I was really visiting the park. I thought it was going to be sort of fuddy-duddy and dull. I thought it was going to be like The Museum OF Queens and have maps and old books and stuff. I was very pleasantly surprised! I’d always heard of the Panorama of the City of New York, an almost 10,000 square foot, to scale, model of the city of New York – including Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, Bronx and Staten Island, and I was like Big Yawn. But really, it was so so cool! Like, it literally has every building – apartments, houses, schools, row-houses, projects, everything. I wish I could have gotten closer to Brooklyn to see where I used to live!

The museum itself is laid out in a very open and airy way, and it didn’t make me feel tired as museums sometimes do. My one friend Linda is very good about reading the information placards at each exhibit and learning about the pieces and the artist. I just like looking at the pictures and enjoying the space 🙂

And outside are some still-standing remnants of the ’64 World’s Fair: the unisphere (the giant globe), the New York State pavilion and its accompanying observation towers. They’re open to the public as part of Flushing Meadows Park.

I wore an outfit that was perfect for the day. The Rachel Roy asymmetric hem sweater is warm enough to go from car to museum without a coat…and light enough to wear inside a museum without getting too hot! I love the dark steely grey color over the white Gloria Vanderbilt Amanda jeans. And my light grey New Balance sneakers kept my feet pretty happy for over a mile of walking. A small crossbody bag held essentials while keeping my hands free for my camera.

Do you like visiting museums? I really don’t know much about art, but I like seeing new things. I definitely prefer visiting modern art exhibits. The moral of today’s story is to have an open mind and not just pooh-pooh something because of what you think it is. Better to give it a try and maybe find out that you like it after all!

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Photographs of me by She Who Shall Remain Nameless, thank you for your tireless and creative efforts!

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