Key	Imgs	Short Description
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...
2023_DC_Building_BrickC	229	DC -- Natl Building Museum -- Exhibit: Brick City Brick City On view through spring 2025 Brick City celebrates iconic architecture from cities around the world through carefully recreated constructions made from LEGO® bricks by U.K.-based artist Warren Elsmore. Visitors will take a world tour discovering new destinations across all seven continents...
2024_01_13C6_Building_Stories	14	DC -- Natl Building Museum -- Exhibit: Building Stories BUILDING STORIES Opening Sunday, January 21, 2024 Building Stories will bring kids and adults alike on an immersive exploration of the world of architecture, engineering, construction, and design found in the pages of children’s books. Geared toward an intergenerational audience, with special...
2024_01_21A3_Building_Stories	310	DC -- Natl Building Museum -- Exhibit: Building Stories
2024_01_27D1_Building_Stories	51	DC -- Natl Building Museum -- Exhibit: Building Stories
2024_01_21A4_Building_StoriesDM	52	DC -- Natl Building Museum -- Exhibit: Building Stories -- David Macaulay section
2024_01_27D2_Building_StoriesDM	100	DC -- Natl Building Museum -- Exhibit: Building Stories -- David Macaulay section
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_DC_Building_Gun	56	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...
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...
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...
2023_DC_Building_MiniMem	117	DC -- Natl Building Museum -- Exhibit: Mini Memories: Souvenir Buildings from the David Weingarten Collection Mini Memories: Souvenir Buildings from the David Weingarten Collection When you think of a place you’ve visited, what comes to mind? Maybe it is a popular tourist attraction, historic event, or even an impressive bridge? For centuries, travelers have sought to bring home remembrances of their...
2016_DC_Building_Meigs	40	DC -- Natl Building Museum -- Exhibit: Montgomery Meigs
2023_DC_Building_Meigs	46	DC -- Natl Building Museum -- Exhibit: Montgomery Meigs
2022_DC_Building_Notre	42	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...
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...
2022_DC_Building_Wall	282	DC -- Natl Building Museum -- Exhibit: The Wall/El Muro: What Is a Border Wall? 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...
2022_DC_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 VISITOR 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.
2023_DC_Building_VC	102	DC -- Natl Building Museum -- Exhibit: Visitor Center VISITOR 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.

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