Key	Imgs	Short Description
1997_DC_Building	26	DC -- Natl Building Museum
1998_DC_Building	8	DC -- Natl Building Museum
1999_DC_Building	5	DC -- Natl Building Museum
2002_DC_Building	5	DC -- Natl Building Museum
2004_DC_Building	33	DC -- Natl Building Museum
2005_DC_Building	44	DC -- Natl Building Museum Four visits: ...
2006_DC_Building	13	DC -- Natl Building Museum They said the new things going up were for an NBC reality show which was going to film there on Monday. From the Washington Post at http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/08/18/AR2006081801131.html NAMES & FACES Saturday, August 19, 2006; Page C03 Ex-CIA Loses the Way on...
2007_DC_Building	67	DC -- Natl Building Museum Various visits including: (070910) The starling that got into the building and hangs out at the snack bar waiting for treats. When the fountain in the middle of the building is closed up for some reason, the staff leaves water containers out for him. (2) Work progresses on "channeling" the walls to...
2008_DC_Building	12	DC -- Natl Building Museum Several visits: - I had never noticed the tile for Ulysses Grant on the one side of the building. - Pictures of the outside bas relief figures.
2009_DC_Building	7	DC -- Natl Building Museum
2010_DC_Building	13	DC -- Natl Building Museum
2011_DC_Building	12	DC -- Natl Building Museum
2014_DC_Building	13	DC -- Natl Building Museum Including the Big Maze.
2015_DC_Building	79	DC -- Natl Building Museum
2017_DC_Building	7	DC -- Natl Building Museum
2019_DC_Building	40	DC -- Natl Building Museum
2021_DC_Building	8	DC -- Natl Building Museum
2021_DC_Building_Animals	160	DC -- Natl Building Museum -- Exhibit: Animals, Collected Animals, Collected ONGOING Lions and tigers and … griffins? Oh, my! The National Building Museum is home to 320,000 objects related to the built environment. Many of these artifacts in the permanent collection have never been displayed. Animals, Collected is a chance to explore some of the Museum’s...
2021_DC_Building_Equil	24	DC -- Natl Building Museum -- Exhibit: Equilateral Network (by Lisa Marie Thalhammer) An Enormous Rainbow Mural Graces The National Building Museum Lawn During Pride Month June 5, 20218:00 AM ET Laurel Wamsley The wide lawn of the National Building Museum in Washington, D.C., has taken on a riot of rainbow hues in a geometric mural designed by artist Lisa Marie Thalhammer. The...
2019_DC_Building_Evicted	69	DC -- Natl Building Museum -- Exhibit: Evicted Evicted April 14, 2018–May 19, 2019 A stable place to call home is one of the best predictors of success. Yet, each year more than 2.3 million Americans, most of them low-income renters, face eviction. While it used to be rare even in the poorest neighborhoods, forcible removal has become ordinary,...
2021_DC_Building_Gun	67	DC -- Natl Building Museum -- Exhibit: Gun Violence Memorial Project Gun Violence Memorial Project April 9, 2021–September 25, 2022 “You hear those numbers all the time, but you never tie names to them. I wanted you to see who my son was.” -- Pamela Bosley, mother of Terrell Bosley, Co-founder of Purpose Over Pain Memorials are works of art and architecture that...
2022_05_30B1_Building_Gun	57	DC -- Natl Building Museum -- Exhibit: Gun Violence Memorial Project Gun Violence Memorial Project April 9, 2021–September 25, 2022 “You hear those numbers all the time, but you never tie names to them. I wanted you to see who my son was.” -- Pamela Bosley, mother of Terrell Bosley, Co-founder of Purpose Over Pain Memorials are works of art and architecture that... (Partially reviewed)
2017_DC_Building_Hive	18	DC -- Natl Building Museum -- Exhibit: Hive The National Building Museum and Studio Gang present Hive, the latest Summer Block Party installation in the Great Hall. Soaring to the uppermost reaches of the Museum, Hive is built entirely of more than 2,700 wound paper tubes, a construction material that is recyclable, lightweight, and renewable....
2016_DC_Building_Icebergs	25	DC -- Natl Building Museum -- Exhibit: Icebergs ICEBERGS July 2, 2016 - September 5, 2016 Visit ICEBERGS in the Museum's Great Hall. Designed by James Corner Field Operations, the installation opens as part of the annual Summer Block Party series, July 2 - September 5. Visitors will: * Explore a fantastical glacial sea designed by landscape...
2021_DC_Building_Justice	34	DC -- Natl Building Museum -- Exhibit: Justice is Beauty: The Work of MASS Design Group Justice is Beauty: The Work of MASS Design Group April 9, 2021–September 25, 2022 Can a well-designed school enhance learning? Can the floor plan of a hospital improve health outcomes? Can a memorial promote healing within society? “We began confronted with the idea that we had a difficult choice...
2019_DC_Building_Lawn	33	DC -- Natl Building Museum -- Exhibit: Lawn Lawn July 4-September 2, 2019 The Museum is partnering with the LAB at Rockwell Group to present the 2019 Summer Block Party installation. Lawn will be an immersive installation taking up the entirety of the Museum’s Great Hall, and offer interactive experiences for all ages. Lawn allows guests to...
2010_DC_Building_LEGO	37	DC -- Natl Building Museum -- Exhibit: LEGO Towering Ambition Towering Ambition: You are standing inside a building made of bricks. Actually, more than fifteen and a half million bricks were used to construct the National Building Museum's historic home. Now, begin to think smaller... and smaller... and you can just begin to fathom the challenge that Adam Reed...
2011_DC_Building_LEGO	20	DC -- Natl Building Museum -- Exhibit: LEGO Towering Ambition
2012_DC_Building_LEGO	35	DC -- Natl Building Museum -- Exhibit: LEGO Towering Ambition Including packing it up to remove it.
2021_DC_Building_LoFab	6	DC -- Natl Building Museum -- Exhibit: Lo-Fab Pavilion Lo-Fab Pavilion How can complex structures be built in areas where skilled labor is in short supply? How can designers use local materials to construct large structures with small components? The Lo-Fab Pavilion offered MASS Design Group the chance to explore these questions with the Virginia Tech...
2021_DC_Building_Maze	54	DC -- Natl Building Museum -- Exhibit: Maze of Knowledge (by Foon Sham) Maze of Knowledge Conceived by D.C.-area sculptor Foon Sham, this 26-foot-square, 8-foot-high labyrinth engages visitors of all ages. With walls and horizontal broken brick-line contours made of wooden blocks sourced from building materials, the installation resembles a dilapidated structure. The Maze...
2016_DC_Building_Meigs	40	DC -- Natl Building Museum -- Exhibit: Montgomery Meigs
2020_DC_Building_Matter	82	DC -- Natl Building Museum -- Exhibit: Murals That Matter: Activism Through Public Art Murals That Matter: Activism Through Public Art On The West Lawn Through November 2020 The National Building Museum, in partnership with the P.A.I.N.T.S. Institute and the DowntownDC Business Improvement District (BID), is pleased to present Murals That Matter: Activism Through Public Art. Located on...
2021_DC_Building_Matter	19	DC -- Natl Building Museum -- Exhibit: Murals That Matter: Activism Through Public Art (3rd visit)
2022_05_30B2_Building_Notre	43	DC -- Natl Building Museum -- Exhibit: Notre-Dame de Paris: The Augmented Exhibition Notre-Dame de Paris: The Augmented Exhibition On Display April 15 – September 26, 2022 Notre-Dame de Paris: The Augmented Exhibition is an augmented reality immersion into the history and restoration of the revered cathedral produced by the innovative French start-up Histovery, in collaboration with... (Partially reviewed)
2021_DC_Building_Truss	63	DC -- Natl Building Museum -- Exhibit: Notre Dame de Paris Truss Project Notre Dame de Paris Truss Project: August 6–September 16 Inspired by the terrible April 2019 fire that nearly destroyed the Notre-Dame de Paris cathedral, Massachusetts-based HandsHouse Studio, which develops projects outside of the traditional design and construction classroom that energize history...
2021_DC_Building_Play	77	DC -- Natl Building Museum -- Exhibit: Play Work Build PLAY WORK BUILD ONGOING Please note: Currently we are operating PLAY WORK BUILD in a very limited capacity: only 20 people in the exhibition at a time. The blocks and surfaces are sanitized regularly, and we ask all visitors to sanitize their hands and keep masks on at all times. Timed passes are...
2019_DC_Building_Secret_Cities	200	DC -- Natl Building Museum -- Exhibit: Secret Cities Secret Cities: The Architecture and Planning of the Manhattan Project May 3, 2018 – July 28, 2019 In the fall of 1942, less than a year after the United States was drawn into World War II by the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers quietly began acquiring vast tracts of...
2015_DC_Building_Beach	66	DC -- Natl Building Museum -- Exhibit: The BEACH The National Building Museum presents a one-of-a-kind destination for visitors, an interactive architectural installation that brings the quintessential summer experience of going to the beach to downtown Washington, D.C. Spanning across the Museum’s Great Hall, the BEACH, created in partnership with...
2022_05_30B3_Building_Wall	131	DC -- Natl Building Museum -- Exhibit: The Wall/El Muro: The Wall/El Muro: What Is a Border Wall? On Display Until November 6, 2022 The Wall/El Muro: What Is a Border Wall? examines the border wall from the perspective of architecture and design. By focusing on the built environment, visitors will understand that a border wall makes real—and... (Partially reviewed)
2022_05_29E5_Building_Transform	21	DC -- Natl Building Museum -- Exhibit: Transform DC Transform DC A collaboration with local artist Patrick McDonough, Transform DC is a mural project where students work collaboratively to create large scale murals that are installed either at their base school or as a part of a city-wide culminating installation. The murals are a part of the Transform...
2018_DC_Building_Sham	14	DC -- Natl Building Museum -- Exhibit: Vascular Form XI. Spirit (by Foon Sham) Foon Sham was named the Asian Influence/American Design Visionary Artist of the 2018 Smithsonian Craft Show. As part of the award, he was commissioned to construct a piece which ended up on exhibit outside of the museum. This pine piece is called Vascular Form XI, Spirit.
2021_DC_Building_VC	35	DC -- Natl Building Museum -- Exhibit: Visitor Center 1VISITOR CENTER Ongoing Tickets, information about upcoming programs, and a wall-size display of objects from our collection. In the rooms that follow, learn how we shape our world, and the large and small ways it shapes us.
2012_DC_Canstruction	193	NBM -- Washington Architectural Foundation's Canstruction® 2012 Washington Architectural Foundation's Canstruction® 2012 See fantastic structures built entirely out of thousands of canned goods by metropolitan Washington D.C. architecture and construction teams! Canstruction® is a creative design-build competition that benefits the Capital Area Food Bank. Bring...
2014_DC_Canstruction	302	NBM -- Washington Architectural Foundation's Canstruction® 2014 Despite what you learned as a child, playing with food is exactly the point of Canstruction 2014. The nationwide program, which is organized in DC by the Washington Architectural Foundation, challenges teams of architecture, construction, and engineering professionals to interpret a theme using stacked...
2015_DC_Canstruction	92	NBM -- Washington Architectural Foundation's Canstruction® 2015 November 22 - Monday, November 30, 2015 Join us at Canstruction on Black Friday as an alternative to the excess of shopping as we raise awareness about hunger in DC. Bring a can to get a dollar off of your admission to the National Building Museum and then use the can to vote for your favorite project....
2017_DC_Canstruction	101	NBM -- Washington Architectural Foundation's Canstruction® 2017 2017 Theme: CANnect with Nature Build Out: Sunday, November 19, 12:00 PM - 6:00 PM Dates: Sunday, November 19 - Sunday, November 26, 2017 Location: National Building Museum Canstruction is a nationwide program that aims to raise awareness about hunger. In DC, Canstruction is organized by the...
2018_DC_Canstruction	434	NBM -- Washington Architectural Foundation's Canstruction® 2018 Join the Washington Architectural Foundation at the National Building Museum to see the build-out for CANstruction 2018! 2018 Theme: CAN't Stop the Beet! Build Out: Sunday, November 18 On View: Monday, November 19 - Sunday, November 25, 2018 Canstruction is a nationwide program that aims to raise...
2021_DC_Canstruction_211128	229	NBM -- Washington Architectural Foundation's Canstruction® 2021 -- Follow-up Photos CANstruction In Person Exhibit Sunday, November 21 - Monday, November 29 Visit the National Building Museum to see this year's CANstruction sculptures! The theme is Children's Books and each structure will highlight a different book. The display is in the main hall of the website. See the NBM...
2021_DC_Canstruction_211121	560	NBM -- Washington Architectural Foundation's Canstruction® 2021 -- The Build event CANstruction In Person Exhibit Sunday, November 21 - Monday, November 29 Visit the National Building Museum to see this year's CANstruction sculptures! The theme is Children's Books and each structure will highlight a different book. The display is in the main hall of the website. See the NBM...
2019_DC_Canstruction_AIA	24	Washington Architectural Foundation's Canstruction® 2019 @ AIA Headquarters Join the Washington Architectural Foundation at the Columbia Square Building and AIA National Headquarters to see the build-out for CANstruction 2019! 2019 Theme: The 1980s Columbia Square, 555 13th Street NW AIA National Headquarters, 1735 New York Ave NW #CANstructionDC Canstruction is a...
2019_DC_Canstruction_CS	96	Washington Architectural Foundation's Canstruction® 2019 @ Columbia Square Join the Washington Architectural Foundation at the Columbia Square Building and AIA National Headquarters to see the build-out for CANstruction 2019! 2019 Theme: The 1980s Columbia Square, 555 13th Street NW AIA National Headquarters, 1735 New York Ave NW #CANstructionDC Canstruction is a...

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