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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]
The late Lepenski Vir (6300–6000 BC) architectural phase saw the development of unique trapezoidal buildings and monumental sculpture, [3] related with the admixing of Iron Gates Hunter-Gatherers with newly arrived Early European Farmers. [4] The Lepenski Vir site consists of one large settlement with around ten satellite villages.
National Museum of Crime & Punishment, closed in September 2015 [16] and is now operated as Alcatraz East in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee; National Pinball Museum [17] Newseum, founded 1997 in Rosslyn, Virginia, moved to Washington in 2008, closed December 2019 and is currently seeking new location. [18]
Washington, D.C. National Mall: 1964 [18] National Museum of the American Indian: Native American history and art: Washington, D.C. National Mall: 2004 [19] [20] National Museum of the American Indian's George Gustav Heye Center: Native American history and art: New York City Bowling Green: 1994 [19] [21] National Museum of Natural History ...
Lepenski Vir is a mesolithic archaeological site of the Iron Gates culture, near Donji Milanovac, dating to 7000 BC with the peak of culture in 5300–4800 BC. Numerous piscine sculptures and peculiar architecture are testimony to a rich social and religious life led by the inhabitants and the high cultural level of these early Europeans.
The Ellipse, sometimes referred to as President's Park South, is a 52-acre (21 ha) park south of the White House fence and north of Constitution Avenue and the National Mall in Washington, D.C., United States. The Ellipse is also the name of the five-furlong (1.0 km) circumference street within the park.
Buildings T and U were demolished in 1958 to make way for the construction of the National Museum of American History. [11] The buildings near 7th Street were demolished beginning in 1966. [12] Building E was the last temporary building on the Mall to be demolished, in 1971; part of the National Air and Space Museum would occupy its spot. [13] [14]
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.