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Added to NRHP. March 24, 1969. Designated NHL. February 4, 1985. The National Building Museum is a museum of architecture, design, engineering, construction, and urban planning in Northwest Washington, D.C., U.S. It was created by an act of Congress in 1980, and is a private non-profit institution. Located at 401 F Street NW, it is adjacent to ...
November 8, 1964. The Arts and Industries Building is the second oldest (after The Castle) of the Smithsonian museums on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. Initially named the National Museum, it was built to provide the Smithsonian with its first proper facility for public display of its growing collections. [3]
13 - National Portrait Gallery 14 - Smithsonian American Art Museum 15 - National Postal Museum 16 - National Zoological Park (National Zoo) 17 - Anacostia Community Museum 18 - National Air and Space Museum's Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center 19 - National Museum of the American Indian's George Gustav Heye Center.
National Museum of Natural History. The National Museum of Natural History (NMNH) is a natural history museum administered by the Smithsonian Institution, located on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., United States. It has free admission and is open 364 days a year. With 4.4 million visitors in 2023, it was the second most-visited museum in ...
Website. https://airandspace.si.edu. The National Air and Space Museum (NASM) of the Smithsonian Institution, is a museum in Washington, D.C., in the United States, dedicated to human flight and space exploration. Established in 1946 as the National Air Museum, its main building opened on the National Mall near L'Enfant Plaza in 1976.
The building houses the collections of two Smithsonian museums: the National Portrait Gallery and the Smithsonian American Art Museum. The Old Patent Office Building model room's interior during the American Civil War, c. 1861–1865 The Old Patent Office model room in 2011, now the Great Hall of the National Portrait Gallery. The Smithsonian ...
The National Museum of American History: Kenneth E. Behring Center is a historical museum in Washington, D.C. It collects, preserves, and displays the heritage of the United States in the areas of social, political, cultural, scientific, and military history. Among the items on display is the original Star-Spangled Banner.
Website. www .si .edu /Museums /ripley-center. The S. Dillon Ripley Center, better known simply as the Ripley Center, is one of the buildings of the Smithsonian Institution series of museums located in the National Mall in Washington, D.C. The above-ground portion is only a small pagoda, and it descends into a larger underground portion.