Queens Museum Reopens: What To Know

CORONA, QUEENS — The Queens Museum reopened to visitors Wednesday with a set of new health and safety protocols, four new art exhibitions and free admission.

To enter the museum, visitors must book free timed tickets and show up within 30 minutes of their designated admission time. There will be touchless temperature checks upon entry and protective equipment available to visitors who forget a mask or face covering.

“After six months of turmoil and uncertainty throughout Queens, our city and the world, we can find solidarity and comfort in the inspiration and works that unite us as a community,” Sally Tallant, president and executive director of the Queens Museum, said in a statement. “We are proud to work with artists to bring forth messages of hope at this still tumultuous time and to welcome back our visitors with these meaningful new exhibits and installations.”

The art museum will have four new exhibitions on view:

• After the Plaster Foundation, or, ‘Where can we live?: An exhibition of twelve artists and artist groups with roots in New York City asking questions about home, property and the Earth, and who has access to these things under capitalism.

• Bruce Davidson: Outsider on the Inside: More than a hundred photographs by Magnum Photos member and Henri Cartier-Bresson mentee Bruce Davidson, ranging from study prints to rare vintage items.

• Ulrike Müller and Amy Zion: The Conference of the Animals: A mural by artist Ulrike Müller and an exhibition of children’s drawings by independent curator Amy Zion. This project takes its title from German writer Erich Kästner’s children’s book "The Animal’s Conference," a political satire about a group of animals who, frustrated by the inefficacy of human international conferences, convene to save the planet.

• Ridgewood Reservoir for the 21st Century: Traces the 160-year transformation of the site from the construction of its three water basins to its invaluable role today as a 50 acre open space in Highland Park, a green oasis allowing for close encounters with nature.

The museum will be open from noon to 5 p.m. Wednesdays through Fridays, and from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. on the weekends. It will be closed Mondays and Tuesdays.