National Building Museum
 

Upcoming Programs

 
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Learn more about the National Building Museum's programs and lectures.

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March 1, 2018
Open Today's Tours
Historic Building Tours at 11:30 am and 1:30 pm
March 1, 2018 11:30 AM
March 4, 2018
Ticketed Family Workshop: Model Airplane Construction (Morning)
Construct your own rubber-band-propelled model airplane and learn about aeronautics with the D.C. Maxecuters.
March 4, 2018 9:30 AM
Open Flying in the Great Hall
Witness death-defying feats of aeronautics well, model aeronautics, anyway when the D.C. Maxecuters return to fly their model airplanes in the Museum's Great Hall.
March 4, 2018 11:00 AM
Ticketed Family Workshop: Model Airplane Construction (Afternoon)
Construct your own rubber-band-propelled model airplane and learn about aeronautics with the D.C. Maxecuters.
March 4, 2018 2:30 PM
March 5, 2018
Open Today's Tours
Historic Building tours at 11:30 am and 1:30 pm
March 5, 2018 11:30 AM
March 6, 2018
Open Today's Tours
Historic Building Tours at 11:30 am and 1:30 pm
March 6, 2018 11:30 AM
March 7, 2018
Open Today's Tours
Historic Building Tours at 11:30 am, 12:30 pm, and 1:30 pm
March 7, 2018 11:30 AM
March 8, 2018
Open Today's Tours
Historic Building Tours at 11:30 am and 1:30 pm
House and Home tour at 11:00 am
March 8, 2018 11:00 AM
March 9, 2018
Open Today's Tours
Historic Building Tour at 11:30 am and 12:30 pm
March 9, 2018 11:30 AM
March 10, 2018
Open Today's Tours
Historic Building Tours at 11:30 am, 12:30 pm, and 1:30 pm
March 10, 2018 11:30 AM
March 11, 2018
Open Today's Tours
Historic Building Tours at 1:30 pm
March 11, 2018 12:00 PM
March 12, 2018
Open Today's Tours
Historic Building Tours at 11:30 am and 12:30 pm
March 12, 2018 11:30 AM
March 13, 2018
Open Today's Tours
Historic Building Tour at 11:30 am and 1:30 pm
March 13, 2018 10:30 AM
March 14, 2018
Open Today's Tours
Historic Building Tours at 11:30 am and 1:30 pm
March 14, 2018 11:30 AM
March 15, 2018
Open Today's Tours
Historic Building Tours at 11:30 am and 1:30 pm
March 15, 2018 11:30 AM
March 16, 2018
Open Today's Tours
Historic Building Tours at 11:30 am and 12:30 pm
March 16, 2018 11:30 AM
Open Design Showcase: Dream City
See the possibilities of city planning through young eyes. Kindergarteners through second graders from every D.C. Public School in the city spent six weeks exploring their school communities see the culminating event.
March 16, 2018 1:00 PM
March 17, 2018
Open Offsite Tour: DC Water Headquarters
Tour DC Water, the headquarters of the area's metropolitan water and sewer authority.
March 17, 2018 10:00 AM
Open Today's Tours
Historic Building Tours at 11:30 am and 12:30 pm
March 17, 2018 11:30 AM
March 18, 2018
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.
March 18, 2018 10:00 AM
Open Today's Tours
Historic Building Tours at 11:30 am, 12:30 pm, and 1:30 pm
March 18, 2018 10:30 AM
March 19, 2018
Open Today's Tours
Historic Building Tour at 11:30 am
March 19, 2018 11:30 AM
March 20, 2018
Ticketed Museum closed for private event.
The Museum is closed on Tuesday, March 20.
March 20, 2018 9:00 AM
March 21, 2018
Open Today's Tours
Historic Building Tours at 11:30 am, 12:30 pm, and 1:30 pm
March 21, 2018 11:30 AM
March 22, 2018
Open Today's Tours
Historic Building Tour at 12:30 pm.
March 22, 2018 12:30 AM
March 23, 2018
Open Today's Tours
Historic Building Tours at 11:30 am, 12:30 pm, and 1:30 pm
March 23, 2018 11:30 AM
March 24, 2018
Open Today's Tours
Historic Building Tour at 11:30 am
March 24, 2018 11:30 AM
March 25, 2018
Ticketed One Giant Mediation
One Giant Meditation: Take 5 Meditation & National Cherry Blossom Festival kickoff in the Great Hall.
March 25, 2018 9:00 AM
Open Today's Tours
Historic Building Tours at 11:30 am and 12:30 pm
Making Room Tour at 2:30 pm
March 25, 2018 11:30 AM
Ticketed Teen Workshop: When Architecture Tells a Story
Use creative writing, collage, and artwork to creatively reimagine the world we will design and build for ourselves. This workshop is for teens currently enrolled in 8th 12th grades.
March 25, 2018 1:00 PM
March 26, 2018
Open Today's Tours
Historic Building Tours at 12:30 pm and 1:30 pm
March 26, 2018 12:30 PM
Ticketed Book Talk and Signing: The Watergate: Inside America's Most Infamous Address
Hear how Italian architect Luigi Moretti promised to bring a "touch of Rome" to America's capital city with the design of the Watergate complex.
March 26, 2018 6:30 PM
March 27, 2018
Ticketed Homeschool Day
The National Building Museum invites individual families to register for the Museum's Homeschool Day on Tuesday, March 27, 2018.
March 27, 2018 9:00 AM
Open Story Time with DC Public Library
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.
March 27, 2018 10:30 AM
Open Today's Tours
Historic Building Tours at 11:30 am, 12:30 pm, and 1:30 pm
March 27, 2018 11:30 AM
March 28, 2018
Open Today's Tours
Historic Building Tours at 11:30 am, 12:30 pm, and 1:30 pm
March 28, 2018 11:30 AM
Ticketed Talk: Women in Architecture: Make No Little Plans
Gain understanding of the inspirations, design processes, successes, and challenges of three of D.C's most complex, large-scale projects - The Wharf, St. Elizabeths East Campus, and McMillan.
March 28, 2018 6:30 PM
March 29, 2018
Open Today's Tours
Historic Building tours at 11:30 am and 1:30 pm
March 29, 2018 11:30 AM
Ticketed Presentation: When Architecture Tells a Story
Explore social issues and the creative process of architecture through imaginative fiction and artwork. The National Building Museum and Blank Space present the winners of the 2018 Fairy Tales competition.
March 29, 2018 6:30 PM
March 30, 2018
Open Today's Tours
Historic Building Tour at 11:30 am
Making Room tour at 2:30 pm
March 30, 2018 11:30 AM
March 31, 2018
Ticketed Exhibition Opening: Community Policing in the Nation's Capital
The exhibition will display for the first time a newly discovered collection of posters, maps, and other materials from this innovative community policing plan.
March 31, 2018 10:00 AM
Open Family Afternoon: Growing Community
Explore how nature can be intentionally integrated into and around built spaces to help promote community and encourage civic engagement.

March 31, 2018 11:00 AM
Open Today's Tours
Historic Building Tours at 11:30 am, 12:30 pm, and 1:30 pm
March 31, 2018 11:30 AM

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