Where Contemporary Art Fills A Former Queens Schoolhouse
Experimental contemporary art fills a former public school in Long Island City, where MoMA PS1 turns classrooms into galleries.
🏫 Inside the old schoolhouse
MoMA PS1 occupies a hulking brick building in Long Island City that spent decades as Public School 1 before it became a museum. Galleries spread across former classrooms, stairwells, and boiler rooms, turning a corner into a hallway you did not expect. The program leans experimental, with emerging artists and large installations that change often through the year. A concrete courtyard hosts summer crowds and outdoor commissions, and the whole place stays affiliated with the Museum of Modern Art across the river.
