The Collections Department has been busy preparing for the Museum’s newest exhibition, Flickering Treasures: Rediscovering Baltimore’s Forgotten Movie Theaters. The exhibition features a survey of Baltimore’s movie theaters from 1896 to the present. The Museum has roughly 250,000 artifacts in its permanent collection. Still, with...
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By Laura Hicken, assistant registrar As November is Historic Bridge Awareness Month, we were reminded of one of our favorite artifacts in the Alan Rose Collection. In 2014, paper model creator Alan Rose donated his personal archives of paper models, art boards, and assembled model...
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On Saturday, November 10, the Museum will screen The People and the Police, a film documenting the early, turbulent years of Washington, D.C.’s experiment in police-community relations. In advance of the program, we spoke with Derek Musgrove, moderator and associate professor of history at University...
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New exhibition incorporates work of photographer Amy Davis to document Baltimore’s movie theaters from 1896 to the present WASHINGTON, D.C.—On November 17, the National Building Museum opens Flickering Treasures: Rediscovering Baltimore’s Forgotten Movie Theaters. Since the arrival of its first nickelodeon, the Maryland city...
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Join us for the Scully Prize panel discussion October 29 Architecture critics Inga Saffron and Robert Campbell, FAIA are the recipients of the Museum’s 2018 Vincent Scully Prize. The award celebrates the pair’s thoughtful, insightful, and clear journalistic observations and criticisms of the built environment....
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