A new exhibit at the National Building Museum places visitors inside the mind of children’s book authors and illustrators, and in some cases, transports them directly into scenes from popular stories ...

This video is no longer available. Ever been curious about how some of D.C.’s most intricate buildings were made? The National Building Museum is displaying never-before-seen items from their storage ...

This video is no longer available. The National Building Museum often celebrates the literal construction of architects, but now it is celebrating the imaginative world building done by children’s ...

This Saturday, March 14, you’re invited to The Big Draw at The National Building Museum. This third annual event is a free day-long festival for visitors of all ages to discover the power of drawing ...

Entering through a series of cross-laminated timber arches, visitors immediately encounter stories in the form of an eight-channel audio installation of voices reading aloud excerpts from books within ...

The recurring, yet sometimes overlooked role of the built environment in children’s literature is being showcased in Building Stories, a new long-term exhibit at the National Building Museum in ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Author and illustrator David Macaulay joins Marcella Robertson to talk about 'The Big Draw" at the National Building Museum. I've ...

For the next few weeks, visitors to the National Building Museum will find a new attraction inside its cavernous grand hall: an ice-skating rink. Beginning Monday, skaters will have 80 feet of rink to ...

At the National Building Museum an exhibition examines cities in a post-pandemic world. (Courtesy Reddymade) Reddymade, the eponymous New York architecture and design office of Suchi Reddy, was the ...

The National Building Museum, in Washington, D.C., United States, is a museum of "architecture, design, engineering, construction, and urban planning". It was created by an act of Congress in 1980, ...

Downtowns across the US are undergoing a major transformation, years after Covid-19 disrupted local economies and changed the way people live, work and play. For many community leaders, the pandemic ...