Festival of the Building Arts
October 11, 2008
10:00 am - 4:30 pm
Join building and arts professionals at the National Building Museum’s annual Festival of the Building Arts on Saturday, October 11, 2008 and take part in hands-on activities during this exciting, interactive, funfor-all-ages celebration of our built environment. Come, watch, and learn from the experts.
Throughout the day visitors of all ages can:
- Find out HOW to thatch a roof, build a brick wall, or finish dry wall
- LEARN what tools, old and new, different craftspeople use as art of their trades
- WATCH and WORK side by side with stone carvers, woodworkers, blacksmiths, gilders, glass designers
- LEARN from experts – timberwrights, plumbers, masons, roofers, carpenters, interior designers, landscape architects AND MORE!
A free, plastic hard hat will make youngsters part of the team and the action as they:
- CLIMB aboard construction equipment at the outdoor “petting zoo”
- PARTICIPATE in one of the nail driving contests scheduled during the course of the day
- Help CONSTRUCT a gigantic pipe sculpture
- CREATE an original stained glass design or BUILD a model building or green roof from recycled materials to take home
Members: $0
Students: $0
Public: $0
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Special Instructions: Registration required for Scout Groups.
