For Straight Line Crazy’s poster, Ralph Fiennes stands at the center of a model of New York City, in costume as Robert Moses, surveying his public infrastructure projects. This model is the Panorama of the City of New York, housed at the Queens Museum in Flushing Meadows Corona Park (also one of Moses’s projects). In the final post of this series, we are sharing the Panorama’s history. Post 3: The Panorama at the Queen’s Museum Today When the Queens Museum opened in 1972, sporadic changes were made to the Panorama due to donations from architects and developers. During the 1980s boom in construction, models of the AT&T (Sony), Citicorp and other buildings were donated and placed on the model, though most public works and City projects were not included. In 1992, Lester & Associates was again enlisted, this time to bring the entire model up to date. While the Museum was closed for a two-year renovation designed by Rafael Viñoly, the entire model was removed, and more than 60,000 buildings were replaced before each panel was reinstalled in time for the Museum’s November 1994 re-opening. At this time, the helicopters, having exceeded their expected lifetime, were removed and replaced with a series of glass balconies and gently sloping ramps that mimicked the original tour of 1964, which remains today. The Viñoly design embraced the viewers’ need to experience New York City on a personal block by block level as well as the overarching vision of connecting the Queens Museum's past to the present. Learn more about the Panorama by visiting the @queensmuseum! Image caption: Image 1–3: The Panorama of the City of New York, Queens, NY. Photo: Max Touhey. Courtesy the Queens Museum. Image 4: Ralph Fiennes as Robert Moses. Photo: Brett Beyer and Dan Wilton.