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The National Building Museum's gift shop was honored in 2007 as the "Best Museum Store" in the country by Niche magazine, "Best All-Around Museum Shop" in the region by The Washington Post, [7] a "Top Shop" by the Washingtonian, [8] and named best museum shop in D.C. by National Geographic Traveler's blog, Intelligent Travel, in July 2009. [9]
Capital Brutalism, an exhibit on view through February 17 at the National Building Museum in Washington, D.C., amply demonstrates why. Brutalist buildings are unornamented concrete hulks.
Over the years, aside from the four standing exhibits in Ayer Hall, the Center has hosted several notable rotating and traveling exhibits. Hosting the National Building Museum’s “Evicted” exhibit for three months in 2021 came alongside the creation of an oral history project conducted by architecture students at Mississippi State ...
The building was evaluated as a possible home for the National Museum of the American Latino or the Smithsonian American Women's History Museum. [26] [27] The building has hosted a number of exhibitions and artists in residence, such as Catie Cuan, a Futurist-in-Residence who performed at the closing ceremonies of the Futures exhibit on July 6 ...
In October 2010, the National Building Museum in Washington, D.C., opened an exhibition titled Designing Tomorrow: America's World's Fairs of the 1930s. [10] This exhibition, which was available for view until September 2011, prominently featured the Texas Centennial Exposition.
The museum opened in 1964 as the Museum of History and Technology.It was one of the last structures designed by the renowned architectural firm McKim Mead & White.In 1980, the museum was renamed the National Museum of American History to represent its mission of the collection, care, study, and interpretation of objects that reflect the experience of the American people.
She was head of the National Building Museum in Washington, D.C. in 1994 until 2003. [1] From 2003 through 2015 she was Director of the Museum of the City of New York. [2] According to Robert A.M. Stern, Dean of the Yale School of Architecture, Jones built the fledgling National Building Museum into a, "major institution." [3]
In October 2010, the National Building Museum in Washington, D.C. opened an exhibition titled Designing Tomorrow: America's World’s Fairs of the 1930s. [7] This exhibition, which was available for view until September 2011, prominently featured the Great Lakes Exposition.