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  • School’s Out: Lunar New Year

    Celebrate fresh beginnings at the National Building Museum. Explore the stories, traditions, and creative expressions behind this holiday celebrated around the world. 

  • Storytime

    Storytime

    Storytime is FREE and packed full of reading, songs, and activities designed to promote language and literacy skills!

  • Future Friday: Chicago

    This Future Fridays session brings together three of the Riverwalk’s designers, planners, and civic leaders to share the stories behind that transformation. Participants will hear reflections from the people who made the riverfront what it is today, and have the opportunity to ask questions and contribute to conversations about access, identity, and the future of Chicago. 

  • Discover Engineering Week Drop In

    Engineering week is back at the National Building Museum! This year’s theme is Transform Your Future, highlighting how engineers help shape our communities and spark inspiration for a better future.

  • Documentary: Sitting Still

    SITTING STILL portrays the life and work of Laurie Olin, one of the world’s most influential landscape architects.

  • Storytime

    Storytime

    Celebrate the 10th Anniversary of Books from Birth with DC Public Library and the National Building Museum! Read books, sing songs, and make crafts inspired by classic stories. 

  • Just Drop In!

    Join us as we celebrate the opening of our two new exhibitions- A Better Life for Their Children: Julius Rosenwald, Booker T. Washington, and the 4,978 Schools that Changed America and The Tuskegee Chapel: Paul Rudolph x Fry & Welch.

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