QMA & Zoo Offer Things To Do Before, After & In-between US Open Matches

The Queens Museum of Art, steps away from the US Open, is offering free admission to all during the tournament.

Exhibitions on view are: The Panorama of the City of New York, commissioned by Robert Moses for the 1964-65 New York World's Fair; Il Lee: Ballpoint Drawings, early experimental studies and a 50-foot installation behind the museum's auditorium; Generation 1.5, an exhibition of eight artists who emigrated to the United States in their teen years; Corona Plaza, Center of Everywhere; emerging artists' temporary site-specific art in Corona Park; the permanent collection of World's Fair memorabilia from the 1939-40 and 1964-65 New York World's Fairs and selections from the Neustadt collection of Tiffany Glass.

For information, call 718-592-9700 or go to www.queensmuseum.org.

The Wildlife Conservation Society's Queens Zoo, just around the corner from the Open, will remain open for the duration of the tournament and is a perfect place to visit during breaks.

Children of all ages will have a ball at the zoo. Actors from the Wildlife Theater will perform on the weekends of August 31 to September 2.

Andean bears, Canadian lynx, thickbilled parrots and many more wildlife species native to North and South America will provide zoo-going tennis fans with a wildly good time. One of the zoo's lynx, born several summers ago, was named after a famous US Open tennis star.

Admission for adults is $6, seniors $2.25, children $2, kids under 3 are free.

For general information, go to www.queenszoo.com or call 718.271.1500.