By Laura Hicken, Assistant Registrar Tis’ the season to highlight a couple of festive and unexpected artifacts in the National Building Museum’s permanent collection- wrapping paper! While both of our wrapping paper artifacts are in the Washington National Cathedral Construction Archives Collection, they could not be...
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Heather Sultz is a performer, choreographer, and educator who has been creating movement studies from an early age. She’s performed with various dance companies around the world and presented her own choreography through her company SultzDance. She now specializes in site-specific work, exploring architectural and...
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New exhibition celebrates the power of basketball to transcend place and build community WASHINGTON, D.C.—On March 9, 2019, the National Building Museum opens HOOPS, a new exhibition of photographer Bill Bamberger’s work documenting private and community basketball courts around the country and abroad. Hauntingly devoid...
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By Laura Hicken, Assistant Registrar The historic home of the Museum was built between 1882 and 1887 in part to house the headquarters of the United States Pension Bureau in the years after the Civil War. The passage of time and onset of World War...
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Interview with Phil Portlock For 29 years, Phil Portlock served as a staff photographer at WMATA, photographing the construction of the monumental Metrorail system and many other projects. He also spent the last 50 years documenting many protests, rallies and marches, in Washington, D.C. and...
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