By Laura Hicken, Assistant Registrar The National Building Museum’s prized photography collections offer a historic record of a number of buildings all over America. For example, our Wurts Brothers Photography Collection consists of nearly 20,000 photographic prints, print negatives, polyester negatives, glass negatives, notes, receipts,...
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Darwina L. Neal began her career in landscape architecture with the National Park Service (NPS) in 1965, working on Lady Bird Johnson’s Beautification Program. She was the first woman elected president of the American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA) and rose as a leader within...
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Making Room: Housing for a Changing America spotlights a dozen case studies from around the nation, suggesting innovative ways to address the housing crisis. One of these issues is housing affordability—which affects the economic outlook for millions of families in urban, rural, and suburban communities...
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Opening April 14, Evicted will be free for all visitors WASHINGTON, D.C.—Beginning April 14, the National building Museum presents Evicted, a new exhibition that brings visitors to the intimate painful process of chronic eviction. Inspired by Matthew Desmond’s Pulitzer Prize-winning book, the exhibition presents new...
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New exhibition takes over the Great Hall for the fifth annual Summer Block Party series WASHINGTON, D.C.—The National Building Museum announced today that Snarkitecture will design the 2018 Summer Block Party exhibition for the Museum’s Great Hall. The temporary structure, titled Fun House, will be...
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