For Immediate Release: January 11, 2012
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Summer Camp Programs at the National Building Museum
Campers can Build a Better Summer at the National Building Museum
Washington, D.C.—The National Building Museum is offering one, two, or three unique sessions of two-week, full day summer camp for campers entering grades 3–5 in fall 2012. Campers can enjoy design challenges, crafts, field trips, and more while experiencing architecture and design. The National Building Museum’s summer camp focuses on the building, visual, and performing arts. Visit go.nbm.org/summercamp for more information.
BUILDING ARTISTS
July 9-20, 2012
Draw, move, and engineer! Combine your artistic talents and interests in one multi-arts Museum experience. Discover the Museum’s great architecture through visual art, dance, and storytelling. Learn about what makes structures work while interpreting the Museum’s historic building through things like creative movement, making your own perspective drawing, and collaborating on a group mural. Meet dancers, visual artists, and Museum professionals. The session culminates in a special program for families with performance, design, and art.
WORLDLY BUILDERS
July 23 – August 3, 2012
Take a trip without ever leaving D.C. Through hands-on challenges, discover the materials, structures, and cultural landscapes of Russia, Greece, and Alaska. Design a Russian dome modeled after St. Basil's Cathedral, make your own version of the Parthenon, and learn about three unique types of totel poles. Through the lens of an architect, learn about other cultures and how their structures can inform us about their people and traditions. Under the guidance of special guest artists, architects, and educators, share your new creations at the session’s culminating event, a special camper-led “world tour” for families.
YOUNG DESIGNERS
August 6 – 17, 2012
Have you ever thought D.C. could be more kid-friendly? Using visual art, photography, storytelling, and building arts activities, redesign a capital city that celebrates the ideas and diversity of young people. Become a city planner and architect as you work in a team to create your new city's land-use, height restrictions, maps, and governing structure. Build models and use your visual arts skills to illustrate your ideas while learning one of D.C.'s historic buildings. Discover the city's architecture as you re-imagine a city for a city just for kids! Use charcoal, terra cotta, mosaic tiles, collage, paint, LEGO® Bricks, and more. At the end of camp, families are invited to view the campers' visions.
All programming subject to change.
The National Building Museum is America’s leading cultural institution dedicated to advancing the quality of the built environment by educating people about its impact on their lives. Through its exhibitions, educational programs, online content, and publications, the Museum has become a vital forum for the exchange of ideas and information about the world we build for ourselves. Public inquiries: 202.272.2448 or visit www.nbm.org. Connect with us on Twitter: @BuildingMuseum and Facebook.
