New York World's Fair (1939)

The 1939 New York World's Fair was a large international exposition held at Flushing Meadows in Queens, New York, opening in 1939 under the theme "The World of Tomorrow" and continuing into 1940. It was one of the largest world's fairs of its era, famous for forward-looking exhibits of technology and design.

The fair was not a museum but a temporary venue; among its many cultural displays it presented loaned works of art, and it appears here as the site of such an exhibition rather than as a permanent institution.