The Queens Museum of Art has completed its $69-million renovation and will reopen to the public on November 9, 2013. The newly expanded, 105,000-square-foot building includes new galleries, a 48-foot-tall atrium, public event spaces, an artist studio wing, a café and a museum shop. The museum has also announced a future addition to be completed by 2015, which will house a branch of the Queens Library; the partnership will be the first of its kind in the United States.

The Queens Museum’s expansion project was funded through a public-private partnership including $54 million in government support from New York City as well as bequests from private supporters and trustees of the museum. The institution expected patronage to double from 100,000 to 200,000 in the next year.

Founded in 1972, the Queens Museum of Art houses the well-known Panorama of the City of New York, a scale model of the five boroughs built for the 1964 New York World’s Fair.