Curbed: National Building Museum gifted upwards of 3K miniature buildings
Paris’s Notre Dame Cathedral, the Washington Monument, and the Leaning Tower of Pisa are in the collection
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Curbed: ‘Lawn,’ the National Building Museum’s latest summer exhibit, will sprout up this July
Coming to a museum near you, with activities: ‘A vast, sloping green space built on a scaffolding superstructure’
Curbed: Animal-focused exhibit at National Building Museum promises ‘cabinet of curiosities’
The exhibit features more than 125 architectural objects depicting animals and opens on April 20
UrbanTurf: How a Brookland Warehouse Became a Brewery
A recent National Building Museum tour of the Right Proper brewing facility in Brookland offered a glimpse at how DC buildings can be adaptively reused.
WAMU: Where Can You Build A Basketball Court? Anywhere, According To This New Exhibition
A basketball hoop attached to a grain silo. Another nailed to a tree in the woods. A third, surrounded by cacti in the desert.
Curbed: Upcoming National Building Museum exhibit to center on community basketball courts
Next month, the National Building Museum plans to launch a photo exhibit called “Hoops,” spotlighting work by Bill Bamberger that depicts outdoor basketball courts in the U.S. and abroad. Bamberger’s shoots, which began in 2004, depict…
WAMU: New Exhibition Offers Glimpse Inside Historic Movie Theaters
Grand movie theaters built in the first half of the 20th century used to have soaring marquees, big balconies and velvet curtains. Today, many of them have been torn down or repurposed as churches, convenience stores or apartments.
Local teens find parallels between 1968 and 2018 to create new exhibit
The days following Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s assassination in 1968 were especially bleak in DC, as neighborhoods across the city erupted with riots, fires, and looting.
Fifty years later, local teenagers revisited that history as a…