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The National Building Museum’s permanent collection illuminates the building process and documents changing architectural styles and construction techniques. The current collections contain approximately 100,000 photographic images and negatives, 130,000 architectural prints and drawings, 100 linear feet of documents, and over 20,000 objects, including material samples, building fragments, and toys. This behind-the-scenes tour offers a peek at some of the many items we've acquired over our first four decades, all of which are housed at the Museum.
• Introduction
• Washington National Cathedral
• Ernest L. Brothers Interior Design
• Underground
• S.H. Kress and Company
• Robert C. Lautman Photography
• Raymond Kaskey
• Architectural Toys
• Pension Building
Learn more at our website: https://www.nbm.org/collections.
This tour was produced as part of the Museum's 40th Anniversary celebration.
Thank you to CoStar Group and all of our 40th Anniversary donors for making our anniversary week of free programming possible.
On the occasion of our 40th Anniversary, we would like to recognize our generous supporters.
AARP, The Rona and Jeffrey Abramson Foundation, The American Institute of Architects, American Society of Interior Designers, American Society of Landscape Architects, Arup, Beyer Blinder Belle Architects & Planners LLP, Bohler Engineering, Brookfield Properties, Celeste Brown, The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation, CBRE, Inc., Clark Construction Group, LLC, George S. Corey & Cynthia Krus, CoStar Group, Inc., David M. Schwarz Architects Charitable Foundation, DAVIS Construction, James and Shannon Davis, Todd C. DeGarmo, DPR Construction, Louisa Duemling, Michael and Pamela Feigin, Gensler, T. Michael Goodrich, Harvey | Harvey - Cleary, HDR, Inc., Alexandra Huffman, International Masonry Institute, International Union of Bricklayers & Allied Craftworkers, Ironworker Management Progressive Action Cooperative Trust, JBG Smith, LafargeHolcim, Rafael V. Lopez and Linda I. Marks, Stephen M. Lovett, Milton and Dorothy Sarnoff Raymond Foundation, Morgan Stanley Group Inc., ODA Architecture, Perkins and Will, Procore, Whayne and Ursula Quin, The Reinsch Pierce Family Foundation by Lola C. Reinsch, Robert A.M. Stern Architects, LLP, Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP, STUDIOS Architecture, Mr. and Mrs. James W. Todd, The Tower Companies, WSP, ZGF. ekZVgoIMGlY |