National Building Museum
 

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December 2, 2017
Ticketed SOLD OUT: Family Gingerbread Workshop (Morning)
Get in the holiday spirit and construct your own gingerbread house with your family and friends!
December 2, 2017 10:00 AM
Ticketed SOLD OUT: Family Gingerbread Workshop (Afternoon)
Get in the holiday spirit and construct your own gingerbread house with your family and friends!
December 2, 2017 2:00 PM
December 3, 2017
Ticketed SOLD OUT: Family Gingerbread Workshop

Gingerbread House Workshop
This event is sold out.

Get in the holiday spirit and construct your own gingerbread house with
your family and friends! Turn gingerbread walls
December 3, 2017 1:00 PM
December 5, 2017
Open Story Time with DC Public Library

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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...
December 5, 2017 10:30 AM
December 6, 2017
Ticketed Book Talk and Signing: Flickering Treasures
In her book, Flickering Treasures, author-photographer Amy Davis captures the opulent downtown movie palaces and eclectic neighborhood theaters of Baltimore.
December 6, 2017 6:30 PM
December 7, 2017
Ticketed Spotlight on Design: nARCHITECTS and the Making of Carmel Place
Learn how Carmel Place, the 55 unit micro-studio mid-rise in New York City, was built despite regulatory, site, and design challenges.
December 7, 2017 6:30 PM
December 9, 2017
Ticketed Canceled: Workshop and Collections Tour: Woodshop for Kids
Craft a simple peg board game, using one of the handiest tools: the drill.
December 9, 2017 12:30 PM
Ticketed Workshop and Collections Tour: Woodshop for Kids: The Drill (Afternoon)
Craft a simple peg board game, using one of the handiest tools: the drill.
December 9, 2017 3:00 PM
December 10, 2017
Ticketed Asana & Architecture: Yoga in the Great Hall
Join an all-levels yoga class under the colossal, 75-foot-tall Corinthian columns in the Great Hall.
December 10, 2017 10:00 AM
December 11, 2017
Ticketed Talk: Reclaiming Urban Spaces
Learn how cities across the country are reclaiming marginal space for new uses
December 11, 2017 6:30 PM
December 12, 2017
Open Story Time with DC Public Library
Explore books and the built world in everyday life with DC Public Librarians.
December 12, 2017 10:30 AM
December 14, 2017
Open Design Showcase: Student-Designed Housing Solutions
Museum Auditorium
How do planners design housing for different populations in Washington, D.C.? Students in the CityVision program researched local demographics and living needs and visited housing examples across the city. Celebrate their semester of ...
December 14, 2017 6:00 PM
December 16, 2017
Ticketed Off-Site: From Our Happy Home
Explore the ways that people have created feelings of comfort and warmth during cold winter months at the National Portrait Gallery.
December 16, 2017 1:00 PM
December 17, 2017
Open Family Afternoon: From Our Happy Home
Explore some of the ways people in the past and today create feelings of home in the cold winter months.
December 17, 2017 1:00 PM
December 19, 2017
Open 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...
December 19, 2017 10:30 AM
December 21, 2017
Ticketed Book Talk and Signing: The Borscht Belt
Witness the fading infrastructure of Borscht Belt hotels and bungalows in the Catskill Mountain region of New York as chronicled by photographer Marisa Scheinfeld.
December 21, 2017 6:30 PM
December 28, 2017
Open Family Afternoon: The Winter Read-In
Experience the Great Hall transform into a reading space for kids, teens, and families during the National Building Museum and DC Public Library's The Winter Read-In.
December 28, 2017 10:00 AM

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