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Current Exhibitions
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Building Zone
A hands-on introduction to the building arts designed especially for the Museum’s youngest visitors, ages two to six.
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Washington: Symbol and City
October 9, 2004 - December 31, 2011
This exhibition explores how residents experience the city and how Washington itself expresses the tension between the demands of a working seat of government and the desire for a national symbol, and the hopes and needs of an evolving city. PLEASE NOTE: This exhibition will be closed from June 1 - 5 for repairs. We apologize for the inconvenience.
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Cityscapes Revealed: Highlights from the Collection
December 3, 2005 - December 31, 2010
This exhibition highlights the building materials, architectural styles, and construction practices that defined urban America from the end of the 19th through the first half of the 20th centuries.
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Storefront Churches: Photographs by Camilo José Vergara
June 20, 2009 - November 29, 2009
These richly textured color images narrate Camilo José Vergara’s thirty year exploration of the eclectic mix of buildings that house places of worship in some of America’s poorest urban neighborhoods.
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Green Community
October 23, 2008 - October 25, 2009
Green Community explores the origins of our precarious ecological situation and introduces communities large and small where citizens, political leaders, planning and design professionals, developers, and government agencies are working together for a more sustainable future.
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Architecture of Authority: Photographs by Richard Ross
April 18, 2009 - August 16, 2009
This series of large-scale color photographs by Richard Ross captures the essence of “powerful” spaces from courthouses to prisons to mental institutions.
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