Museums and landmarks in Queens, ranked

Awesome, in the middle of nowhere Astoria. Painful to get to from the UWS. Big space full of interesting sculptures and some paintings. Recommend.

Old school building, weird vibe, by design. Liked some exhibits, not all. The sky room is extremely peaceful and worth visiting on its own.

Huge collection of items from movies. Neat.

A ‘castle’, really the officers’ club from old Fort Totten. Weird vibe. Stop in if you’re literally in front of it; otherwise not worth the trip.

Another historic house, but a fun Swarthmore connection: founded by a Quaker (or Quaker-adjacent) and most of the family archives ended up at Swat. Staff has been trying, unsuccessfully, to get them back, and may need to send people down to digitize what Swat hasn’t yet.

Exhibit dependent

Another historic house, a little more interesting for the Queens history it tells.

Decent-sized contemporary art museum. After the Brooklyn Museum I expected more; let down.

Even more befuddling than the Dias, and this one had artist write-ups. A cavernous gray room; without the map you’d never find the art, it blends right in.

Pretty to look at, historical.

Another historic house...

Not much there, which to be fair, the Mets suck

Ratty park with a few half-hearted, uninteresting sculptures.

Not sure if it’s a pawn shop. The owner has thousands of 19th-century PA cast-iron trivets and a lot of hand planes. Trivets are for sale only because his wife won’t let him keep that many. Total passion project.

Another historic house...

Good luck