Upcoming Programs
Click on the programs below to find a description and registration or ticketing information.
Learn more about the National Building Museum's programs and lectures.
October 2017
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| Today's Tours | |
| Take a tour at the National Building Museum. | |
| October 1, 2017 11:00 AM | |
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| Today's Tours | |
| Take a tour at the National Building Museum. | |
| October 2, 2017 11:00 AM | |
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| Little Builders Storytime | |
| Join us on the first Tuesday of each month for an interactive read-aloud in the Building Zone's book nook. | |
| October 3, 2017 10:30 AM | |
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| Today's Tours | |
| Take a tour at the National Building Museum. | |
| October 3, 2017 11:00 AM | |
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| Talk and Book Signing: Rising Tides | |
| Hear the urgent wake up call to the growing crisis of climate refugees from authors John Wennersten and Denise Robbins. A book signing will follow the talk. | |
| October 3, 2017 12:30 PM | |
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| Today's Tours | |
| Take a tour at the National Building Museum. | |
| October 4, 2017 11:00 AM | |
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| Today's Tours | |
| Take a tour at the National Building Museum. | |
| October 5, 2017 11:00 AM | |
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| Today's Tours | |
| Take a tour at the National Building Museum. | |
| October 6, 2017 11:00 AM | |
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| SOLD OUT Tour: St. Elizabeths | |
| Tour the historic grounds of St. Elizabeths, home of the federal institution founded before the Civil War as the Government Hospital for the Insane. | |
| October 7, 2017 10:00 AM | |
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| Today's Tours | |
| Take a tour at the National Building Museum. | |
| October 7, 2017 11:00 AM | |
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| Sold Out: Ghost Tour: Escape the Museum 10/7/17 | |
| National Building Museum Solve puzzles and find clues to reveal the truth and escape the room. |
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| October 7, 2017 7:00 PM | |
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| Ghost Tour: Escape the Museum 10/7/17 | |
| National Building Museum Solve puzzles and find clues to reveal the truth and escape the room. |
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| October 7, 2017 8:30 PM | |
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| Ghost Tour: Escape the Museum 10/7/17 | |
| National Building Museum Solve puzzles and find clues to reveal the truth and escape the room. |
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| October 7, 2017 8:30 PM | |
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| Today's Tours | |
| Take a tour at the National Building Museum. | |
| October 8, 2017 11:00 AM | |
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| Sold Out: Ghost Tour: Escape the Museum 10/8/17 1 | |
| National Building Museum Solve puzzles and find clues to reveal the truth and escape the room. |
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| October 8, 2017 7:00 PM | |
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| Sold Out: Ghost Tour: Escape the Museum 10/8/17 | |
| National Building Museum Solve puzzles and find clues to reveal the truth and escape the room. |
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| October 8, 2017 8:30 PM | |
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| Film Series: Architecture of an Asylum with Intro | |
| In One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, the psychiatric hospital setting is not a therapeutic site designed for healing but a bleak trap, symbolic of American society at large. Introduction by curator Sarah A. Leavitt, Ph.D. | |
| October 9, 2017 7:00 PM | |
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| Film Series: Architecture of an Asylum | |
| In Shock Corridor, the psychiatric hospital setting is not a therapeutic site designed for healing but a bleak trap, symbolic of American society at large. | |
| October 9, 2017 9:45 PM | |
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| Film Series: Architecture of an Asylum with Intro | |
| In Shock Corridor, the psychiatric hospital setting is not a therapeutic site designed for healing but a bleak trap, symbolic of American society at large. The film is introduced by assistant curator Deborah Sorensen. | |
| October 10, 2017 7:00 PM | |
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| Film Series: Architecture of an Asylum | |
| In One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, the psychiatric hospital setting is not a therapeutic site designed for healing but a bleak trap, symbolic of American society at large. | |
| October 11, 2017 7:00 PM | |
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| Film Series: Architecture of an Asylum | |
| In Shock Corridor, the psychiatric hospital setting is not a therapeutic site designed for healing but a bleak trap, symbolic of American society at large. | |
| October 11, 2017 9:45 PM | |
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| Urban Salon: Rooftop Farming | |
| Discover a working farm high above the city on the University of the District of Columbia (UDC) campus. | |
| October 12, 2017 5:30 PM | |
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| The Building Zone is closed for maintenance. | |
| Building Zone closure. | |
| October 13, 2017 10:00 AM | |
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| Offsite Tour: Tysons's Tallest Corporate Headquarters | |
| Tour the newest and tallest addition to Washington's regional skyline. | |
| October 14, 2017 10:00 AM | |
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| Vincent Scully Prize - Conversation With a Reflective Practitioner: Laurie Olin, FASLA | |
| Honor landscape architect Laurie Olin, FASLA, as he receives the Museum's Vincent Scully Prize. | |
| October 16, 2017 6:30 PM | |
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| Story Time with DC Public Library | |
| Explore books and the built world in everyday life with D.C. Public Librarians. | |
| October 17, 2017 10:30 AM | |
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| Talk and Book Signing: Placemakers | |
| Consider how today's real estate developers, ancient political leaders and international rulers, and some unexpected others, all shape and define "place." | |
| October 17, 2017 6:30 PM | |
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| Today's Tours | |
pension building Historic Building Tour 11:30 am | 12:30 pm | 1:30 pm Step back in time to the 1880s learn about the design, construction, and history of our building, formally known as the Pension Bureau. Free to attend. Meet in the Great Hall. |
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| October 18, 2017 11:30 AM | |
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| Is D.C. Ready for a 500-Year Storm Event? | |
| Museum Auditorium How will D.C. handle storm events happening more frequently? What infrastructure is currently in place or being planned to mitigate flooding from these storms? |
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| October 18, 2017 6:30 PM | |
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| Today's Tours | |
pension building Historic Building Tour 11:30 am | 1:30 pm Step back in time to the 1880s learn about the design, construction, and history of our building, formally known as the Pension Bureau. Free to attend. Meet in the Great Hall. |
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| October 19, 2017 11:30 AM | |
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| Urban Salon: Rooftop Farming | |
| Discover a working farm high above the city on the University of the District of Columbia (UDC) campus. | |
| October 19, 2017 5:30 PM | |
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| Homeschool Day | |
| The National Building Museum invites individual families to register for the Museum's Homeschool Day. | |
| October 20, 2017 9:00 AM | |
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| Today's Tours | |
pension building Historic Building Tour 11:30 am | 12:30 pm | 1:30 pm Step back in time to the 1880s learn about the design, construction, and history of our building, formally known as the Pension Bureau. Free to attend. Meet in the Great Hall. |
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| October 20, 2017 11:30 AM | |
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| Sold Out: C&O Canal National Historic Park | |
| Explore the planning process while touring the mile-long section of the C&O Canal that runs through Georgetown. | |
| October 21, 2017 10:00 AM | |
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| Today's Tours | |
pension building Historic Building Tour 11:30 am | 12:30 pm | 1:30 pm Step back in time to the 1880s learn about the design, construction, and history of our building, formally known as the Pension Bureau. Free to attend. Meet in the Great Hall. |
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| October 21, 2017 11:30 AM | |
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| Asana & Architecture: Yoga in the Great Hall | |
| Join me for a mellow, all-levels yoga class under the colossal, 75-foot-tall Corinthian columns in the Great Hall. | |
| October 22, 2017 10:00 AM | |
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| Today's Tours | |
pension building Historic Building Tour 11:30 am | 12:30 pm | 1:30 pm Step back in time to the 1880s learn about the design, construction, and history of our building, formally known as the Pension Bureau. Free to attend. Meet in the Great Hall. |
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| October 22, 2017 11:30 AM | |
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| Ghost Tour: Escape the Museum 10/22/17 | |
| National Building Museum Solve puzzles and find clues to reveal the truth and escape the room. |
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| October 22, 2017 7:00 PM | |
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| Sold Out: Ghost Tour: Escape the Museum 10/22/17 | |
| National Building Museum Solve puzzles and find clues to reveal the truth and escape the room. |
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| October 22, 2017 8:30 PM | |
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| Sold Out: Ghost Tour: Escape the Museum 10/22/17 | |
| National Building Museum Solve puzzles and find clues to reveal the truth and escape the room. |
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| October 22, 2017 8:30 PM | |
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| Today's Tours | |
pension building Historic Building Tour 11:30 am | 12:30 pm | 1:30 pm Step back in time to the 1880s learn about the design, construction, and history of our building, formally known as the Pension Bureau. Free to attend. Meet in the Great Hall. ... |
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| October 23, 2017 11:30 AM | |
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| Story Time with DC Public Library | |
DCPL-Story-Time.png Explore books and the built world in everyday life with DC Public Librarians. Story times for children age 5 and younger are packed full of reading, songs, and activities designed to promote language and literacy skills - a great... |
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| October 24, 2017 10:30 AM | |
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| Today's Tours | |
pension building Historic Building Tour 11:30 am Step back in time to the 1880s learn about the design, construction, and history of our building, formally known as the Pension Bureau. Free to attend. Meet in the Great Hall. *Please note: The... |
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| October 24, 2017 11:30 AM | |
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| Today's Tours | |
pension building Historic Building Tour 12:30 pm | 1:30 pm Step back in time to the 1880s learn about the design, construction, and history of our building, formally known as the Pension Bureau. Free to attend. Meet in the Great Hall. |
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| October 25, 2017 12:30 AM | |
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| Today's Tours | |
pension building Historic Building Tour 11:30 pm | 1:30 pm Step back in time to the 1880s learn about the design, construction, and history of our building, formally known as the Pension Bureau. Free to attend. Meet in the Great Hall. *Pleas... |
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| October 26, 2017 11:30 AM | |
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| Talk: The Many Phantoms of Kirkbride Hospitals | |
| Robert Kirkbride, relative of Thomas Kirkbride, considers the new life mental health facilities from the 19th century can play today. | |
| October 26, 2017 6:30 PM | |
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| Today's Tours | |
pension building Historic Building Tour 11:30 am | 12:30 pm | 1:30 pm Step back in time to the 1880s learn about the design, construction, and history of our building, formally known as the Pension Bureau. Free to attend. Meet in the Great Hall. ... |
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| October 27, 2017 11:30 AM | |
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| Impact Design Summit: Autodesk Design Night DC | |
| The two-day Impact Design Summit will explore how designers can affect society by creating economic, environmental, educational, social health impacts, and how design can be the driver for positive systemic change. | |
| October 27, 2017 6:00 PM | |
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| Symposium: Impact Design Summit: The Practice of Impact Design | |
| The Impact Design Summit will explore how designers can affect society by creating economic, environmental, educational, social health impacts, and how design can be the driver for positive systemic change. | |
| October 28, 2017 8:00 AM | |
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| Today's Tours | |
pension building Historic Building Tour 11:30 pm | 12:30 pm Step back in time to the 1880s learn about the design, construction, and history of our building, formally known as the Pension Bureau. Free to attend. Meet in the Great Hall. |
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| October 28, 2017 11:30 AM | |
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| Sold Out: Ghost Tour: Escape the Museum 10/28/17 | |
| National Building Museum Solve puzzles and find clues to reveal the truth and escape the room. |
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| October 28, 2017 7:00 PM | |
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| Sold Out: Ghost Tour: Escape the Museum 10/28/17 | |
| National Building Museum Solve puzzles and find clues to reveal the truth and escape the room. |
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| October 28, 2017 8:30 PM | |
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| Sold Out: Ghost Tour: Escape the Museum 10/28/17 | |
| National Building Museum Solve puzzles and find clues to reveal the truth and escape the room. |
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| October 28, 2017 8:30 PM | |
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| Today's Tours | |
pension building Historic Building Tour 11: 30 | 12:30 pm Step back in time to the 1880s learn about the design, construction, and history of our building, formally known as the Pension Bureau. Free to attend. Meet in the Great Hall. |
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| October 29, 2017 11:30 AM | |
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| Ghost Tour: Escape the Museum 10/29/17 | |
| National Building Museum Solve puzzles and find clues to reveal the truth and escape the room. |
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| October 29, 2017 7:00 PM | |
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| Sold Out: Ghost Tour: Escape the Museum 10/29/17 | |
| National Building Museum Solve puzzles and find clues to reveal the truth and escape the room. |
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| October 29, 2017 8:30 PM | |
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| Today's Tours | |
pension building Historic Building Tour 11: 30 am Step back in time to the 1880s learn about the design, construction, and history of our building, formally known as the Pension Bureau. Free to attend. Meet in the Great Hall. *Please note:... |
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| October 30, 2017 11:30 AM | |
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| Story Time with DC Public Library | |
DCPL-Story-Time.png Explore books and the built world in everyday life with DC Public Librarians. Story times for children age 5 and younger are packed full of reading, songs, and activities designed to promote language and literacy skills - a great... |
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| October 31, 2017 10:30 AM | |
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| Today's Tours | |
pension building Historic Building Tour 11: 30 am Step back in time to the 1880s learn about the design, construction, and history of our building, formally known as the Pension Bureau. Free to attend. Meet in the Great Hall. *Please note:... |
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| October 31, 2017 11:30 AM | |
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| Sold Out: Ghost Tour: Escape the Museum 10/31/17 | |
| National Building Museum Solve puzzles and find clues to reveal the truth and escape the room. |
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| October 31, 2017 7:00 PM | |
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| Sold Out: Ghost Tour: Escape the Museum 10/31/17 | |
| National Building Museum Solve puzzles and find clues to reveal the truth and escape the room. |
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| October 31, 2017 8:30 PM | |
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| Sold Out: Ghost Tour: Escape the Museum 10/31/17 | |
| National Building Museum Solve puzzles and find clues to reveal the truth and escape the room. |
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| October 31, 2017 8:30 PM | |
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| Film and Talk: The Life and Gardens of Beatrix Farrand | |
| View the first documentary about the pioneering work of landscape architect Beatrix Farrand (1872-1959), designer of Washington, D.C.'s Dumbarton Oaks, and the only woman of the 11 founding members of the American Society of Landscape Architects. | |
| November 1, 2017 6:30 PM | |
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| Offsite Tour: Capitol Crossing | |
| See first-hand the complex engineering and construction involved in creating three new blocks and a mixed-use development. | |
| November 4, 2017 10:00 AM | |
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