National Building Museum: Annual Report 2003

	Me, Myself and Infrastructure: Private Lives and Public Works in America
	Do It Yourself: Home Improvement in 20th-Century America
	Pentagon Memorial Competition — Stage One Entry Display
	Big & Green: Toward Sustainable Architecture in the 21st Century
	Saving Mount Vernon: The Birth of Preservation in America
	Of Our Time: 2002 GSA Design Awards
	Picture This: Windows on the American Home
	Building Images: Seventy Years of Photography at Hedrich Blessing
	Kids' View of the City
	Up, Down, Across: Elevators, Escalators, and Moving Sidewalks
	Building America
	Tools as Art: Instruments of Change — The Hechinger Collection
	Collections & Traveling Exhibitons

Collections

Approximately 40,000 photographic images, 68,000 architectural prints and drawings, 100 linear feet of documents, and 2,100 objects comprise the National Building Museum’s current collections. Collections help support exhibitions at the Museum, while also serving as a resource for researchers.

Traveling Exhibitions

The National Building Museum isn’t the only place you can see National Building Museum exhibitions. An active traveling exhibition program brings shows to different audiences across the country. The exhibition Smart Growth and Choices for Change, which examines alternatives to sprawl, was presented at the Burchfield-Penney Art Center in Buffalo, New York, from April through July of 2003. In addition, portions of On Track: Transit and the American City opened in June 2003 at the National Streetcar Museum in Lowell, Massachusetts.

The traveling version of Smart Growth and Choices for Change was supported by the Urban Land Institute, The George Gund Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Arts.

On Track: Transit and the American City was made possible by LEADERS: American Public Transportation Association, Federal Transit Administration of the U.S. Department of Transportation, and Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority; BENEFACTORS: District Division of Transportation, and JR Central Building Co., Ltd.; PATRONS: Bechtel Foundation, DMJM+HARRIS, Delon Hampton & Associates, Chartered, Parsons Brinckerhoff Inc., and Parsons Transportation Group Inc.; SPONSORS: Amtrak, Gensler/Harry Weese Architects, LTK Engineering Services, and Zimmer Gunsul Frasca Partnership; FRIENDS: Amalgamated Transit Union, The Louis Berger Group, Inc., Beyer Blinder Belle Architects & Planners LLP, Cubic Transportation Systems, Portland Cement Association, Siemens Transportation Systems, Inc., Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, Transport Workers Union of America, URS, and Wabtec Corporation; and DONORS: GFI - Genfare, Robert A. Molofsky, and RBF Consulting.

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