Panorama Challenge Sneak Preview!
Study Up With Tips From The Quizmaster
**Get Set for the City Reliquary x Atlas Obscura Snow Day Igloo Building Party!**
A Spontaneous Winter Festival
**What's New in our Making A Museum Exhibit?**
Speed Boat by a Coney Island Master
**Panorama Challenge Preview!**
[General Admission Tickets: $15 advance](https://www.artful.ly/store/events/17121) / $20 at the door
[City Reliquary and Queens Museum Members: $12 advance](https://www.artful.ly/store/events/17121) / $15 at the door
Maybe it'll be your first time at the Panorama Challenge. Or maybe you'll be competing in the ultra-competitive Panorama Pro division. Either way, you definitely want to read the sneak preview of Panorama questions selected by Quizmaster [Jonathan Turer](https://www.ganyc.org/jonathan-turer) that you'll find in [this article on 6sqft](https://www.6sqft.com/nycs-biggest-trivia-event-is-coming-test-your-knowledge-with-these-teaser-questions/)! You might find some additional hints in this recap of last year's Panorama Challenge on the [Levys' Unique New York](https://levysuniqueny.com/blog/panorama-challenge-11-final-results/) site.We've also gotten word of a few of the possible categories for questions this year. You may want to start reading up on Signs in Woodhaven, Revolutionary NYC, Rock of Ages (geology), Tunnel Time, and Old Time Religion (notable houses of worship). Recruit experts to your team accordingly and [buy your advance tickets here](https://www.artful.ly/store/events/17121)!
**Snow Day! An Igloo-Building Party with the City Reliquary and Atlas Obscura!**
Start anticipating a snow day like you're in elementary school again, waiting for the news crawl to list your school. [Atlas Obscura](http://www.atlasobscura.com) will bring a winter wonderland to the City Reliquary's backyard when the next large snowstorm hits NYC!
Yes, we'll be bringing in an expert! Cold weather shelter expert and polar explorer [Stefan Kindberg](https://www.eagle-eye.com/Stefan-Kindberg) will supervise the build. You can participate in the construction and/or hear his stories of Arctic travels. Polar geophysicists from Columbia University will showcase experiments from [X-Snow](http://www.cryocity.org/x-snow.html), their citizen science efforts to collect data on snowflakes and snowfall. You'll also have the opportunity to reach out and touch an aurora borealis in *Magnetic Midnight*, a custom projection installation by [Vanish Works](https://vani.sh/). Warm up inside with [Oslo Coffee](http://www.oslocoffee.com) and the Reliquary collection.
Put your name on the list [here](https://www.atlasobscura.com/events/snow-day) to be the first to know when Snow Day is a Go!
Yes, we'll be bringing in an expert! Cold weather shelter expert and polar explorer [Stefan Kindberg](https://www.eagle-eye.com/Stefan-Kindberg) will supervise the build. You can participate in the construction and/or hear his stories of Arctic travels. Polar geophysicists from Columbia University will showcase experiments from [X-Snow](http://www.cryocity.org/x-snow.html), their citizen science efforts to collect data on snowflakes and snowfall. You'll also have the opportunity to reach out and touch an aurora borealis in *Magnetic Midnight*, a custom projection installation by [Vanish Works](https://vani.sh/). Warm up inside with [Oslo Coffee](http://www.oslocoffee.com) and the Reliquary collection.
Put your name on the list [here](https://www.atlasobscura.com/events/snow-day) to be the first to know when Snow Day is a Go!
**What's New in our Making A Museum Exhibit?**
The City Reliquary is taking visitors inside our processes of acquisition, research, and preservation of our collection. As we redesign our permanent collection and bring out some of our rarely exhibited holdings, we’re also adding new objects, studying their history. Every week we’ll be working on new additions, and we invite you to journey with us as we learn new stories of the city.
This tropical-themed boat was part of a children's ride named Speed Boat constructed by the W.F. Mangels Company of Coney Island in the 1950s. Speed Boat consisted of eight boats that followed a circular undulating track around a central lighthouse pillar. The boat's rear seat has a ship's wheel with bells attached, and the front seat has a cast aluminum mock gun.
[William F. Mangels](https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2009/08/31/wf-mangels-and-his) emigrated from Germany as a teen, and started his eponymous amusement ride company by the time he was twenty, in 1886. With his mechanic's training, ingenuity, and [complete devotion](https://books.google.com/books?id=zd8DAAAAMBAJ&pg=RA1-PA59&lpg=RA1-PA59&dq=popular+mechanics+carnival+ride+mangels&source=bl&ots=oRGikAq8gy&sig=ACfU3U0EyPZNTjn7tn6hH7Qs34c_jmnfXw&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjm2fnD7rbgAhVIXq0KHT9ZDLsQ6AEwCXoECAMQAQ#v=onepage&q=popular%20mechanics%20carnival%20ride%20mangels&f=false) to figuring out what would be the most fun, [Mangels quickly became prominent](https://www.green-wood.com/2014/mangels-coney-island-exhibition-open/) in his chosen field. His most famous ride, The Whip, was first installed at Luna Park, Coney Island, in 1914 and spread rapidly from there, with more than 500 Whips in amusement parks around the world. Mangels held [more than fifty patents](https://patents.google.com/?inventor=William+F+Mangels) for amusements he designed, including wave pools, shooting galleries, carousels, and coasters.
Mangels' love for the world of amusements led, in 1929, to his directorship of the [American Museum of Public Recreation](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015082356653;view=1up;seq=6), located on Coney Island close to his own factory on West 8th Street. The Museum, dedicated to play facilities of all kinds, included in its collection carousel animals, patent documents, drawings of jousting matches and ancient festivals, bicycles, sleighs, marionettes, and an extensive library. Sadly, the Museum was not a financially successful venture; however, many of its paper holdings as well as Mangels' own company papers, blueprints, and drawings are held by Columbia University's [Rare Book & Manuscript Library](https://library.columbia.edu/news/libraries/2015/2015-2-5_Press_Release_Frederick_Fried.html).
William F. Mangels died in 1958 and is buried in [Green-Wood Cemetery](https://www.green-wood.com/2014/mangels-coney-island-exhibition-open/) in Brooklyn. His creations live on - you can still ride [one of his carousels](http://www.heartofconeyisland.com/bb-carousell.html) on Coney Island today!
[William F. Mangels](https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2009/08/31/wf-mangels-and-his) emigrated from Germany as a teen, and started his eponymous amusement ride company by the time he was twenty, in 1886. With his mechanic's training, ingenuity, and [complete devotion](https://books.google.com/books?id=zd8DAAAAMBAJ&pg=RA1-PA59&lpg=RA1-PA59&dq=popular+mechanics+carnival+ride+mangels&source=bl&ots=oRGikAq8gy&sig=ACfU3U0EyPZNTjn7tn6hH7Qs34c_jmnfXw&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjm2fnD7rbgAhVIXq0KHT9ZDLsQ6AEwCXoECAMQAQ#v=onepage&q=popular%20mechanics%20carnival%20ride%20mangels&f=false) to figuring out what would be the most fun, [Mangels quickly became prominent](https://www.green-wood.com/2014/mangels-coney-island-exhibition-open/) in his chosen field. His most famous ride, The Whip, was first installed at Luna Park, Coney Island, in 1914 and spread rapidly from there, with more than 500 Whips in amusement parks around the world. Mangels held [more than fifty patents](https://patents.google.com/?inventor=William+F+Mangels) for amusements he designed, including wave pools, shooting galleries, carousels, and coasters.
Mangels' love for the world of amusements led, in 1929, to his directorship of the [American Museum of Public Recreation](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015082356653;view=1up;seq=6), located on Coney Island close to his own factory on West 8th Street. The Museum, dedicated to play facilities of all kinds, included in its collection carousel animals, patent documents, drawings of jousting matches and ancient festivals, bicycles, sleighs, marionettes, and an extensive library. Sadly, the Museum was not a financially successful venture; however, many of its paper holdings as well as Mangels' own company papers, blueprints, and drawings are held by Columbia University's [Rare Book & Manuscript Library](https://library.columbia.edu/news/libraries/2015/2015-2-5_Press_Release_Frederick_Fried.html).
William F. Mangels died in 1958 and is buried in [Green-Wood Cemetery](https://www.green-wood.com/2014/mangels-coney-island-exhibition-open/) in Brooklyn. His creations live on - you can still ride [one of his carousels](http://www.heartofconeyisland.com/bb-carousell.html) on Coney Island today!
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