The Westinghouse Pavilion - A gleaming torpedo shaped Time Capsule, suspended by stainless steel wires over a reflecting pool, is the heart of this exhibit. Packed with artifacts of our times and accounts to the eventful history of our days since 1938, it will be buried in tar and concrete on the next to last day of the Fair, there to remain as a message to the future 5,000 years hence. Ten feet south of this tube is buried Westinghouse’s first time capsule, containing a report on civilization as it stood just prior to the 1939 World’s Fair.
Image of a replica of the 1938 Westinghouse Time Capsule courtesy of Wikipedia author Doug Coldwell under the Creative Commons License
7-ton "permanent sentinel" granite monument
Both are to be opened at the same time in the year 6939, five thousand years after the first capsule was sealed.
The Vatican Pavilion – The most important work of art at the fair is on display here: Michelangelo’s 465 year old masterpiece in carved Carrara marble, “The Pieta”, generally held to be one of the finest examples of Christian art in any medium.
The marker and garden that was erected on the site of the Vatican Pavilion.
Gate One to Gotham Plaza - Fairgoers can travel to the fairgrounds from metropolitan New York by private automobile, subway, railroad, bus, taxi, boat or helicopter.
The turnstyle main entrance to the Fair.
The entrance to the Long island Rail Road.
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