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In the summer of 2024, Joan LaGrave and her daughter Elizabeth Albanese donated this blueprint machine to the National Building […]

In celebration of World Book Day, staff at the National Building Museum are turning the pages in Building Stories to

National Building Museum (NBM): Introduce yourself! Who is Terremoto? Terremoto: Terremoto is a landscape architecture office based in Los Angeles

In 1912, two young electrical engineers, Daniel O’Conor (originally from New York) and Herbert Faber (originally from Cincinnati), discovered that

Your Voice: Future Cities Each step you take through the exhibition Coming Together reveals a new story, a new perspective,

The National Building Museum acquired the Wurts Brothers Photography Collection in 1983, making it one of the Museum’s earliest collections.

Vlastimil Koubek, a Czechoslovakian modernist architect who designed more than one hundred buildings primarily in the Washington, D.C. metro region,

In 2015, the National Building Museum received an incredible gift that opened a new window into one of Washington, D.C.’s

The National Building Museum collects artifacts of the built environment from around the world, guided by the belief that the