Results for "Museum buildings"
- Smithsonian Legal Document
Joint Congressional Committee on Construction of a Building for a Museum of History and Technology Members Are Appointed
- Date: 1955 08/01/1955
- Creator: 84th Congress, Sess. 1
- Creator: 84th Congress, Sess. 1
- Smithsonian Legal Document
Senate Report No. 556, Authorizing Construction of a building for a Museum of History and Technology for the Smithsonian Institution
- Date: 1955 07/15/1955
- Creator: 84th Congress, Sess. 1
- Creator: 84th Congress, Sess. 1
Blank Postcard of the Natural History Building (U.S. National Museum)
- Date: 1934
- Creator: Curt Teich & Co
- Creator: Curt Teich & Co
- Smithsonian Legal Document
An Act Authorizing the Trustees of the National Gallery of Art to construct a building or buildings on the site bounded by Fourth Street, Pennsylvania Avenue, Third Street, and Madison Drive Northwest, in the District of Columbia, and making provision for the maintenance thereof
- Date: 1968 07/05/1968
- Creator: 90th Congress, Sess. 2, 1968
- Creator: 90th Congress, Sess. 2, 1968
- SI History Bibliography
Fire in the Museum: The Smithsonian's First Building was Almost Destroyed 100 Years Ago Today
- Date: January 24, 1965
- Creator: Buckman, Christine
- Creator: Buckman, Christine
Blank Postcard of the Natural History Building (U.S. National Museum)
- Date: 1934
- Creator: Curt Teich & Co
- Creator: Curt Teich & Co
- Webpage
Baird's Dream:
- Date: March 7, 2011
- Description: Learn about the history of the first United States National Museum building which opened in 1881 and is now called the Arts & Industries building.
Revisiting the Arts and Industries Building
- Date: April 17, 2014
- Creator: Mitch Toda
- Description: Closed to the public since 2004, the Arts and Industries Building remains closed for the foreseeable future. Here is a look back at what used to be there.
- Smithsonian Legal Document
Joint Resolution To initiate preliminary studies for the restoration and renovation of the Pension Building in Washington, District of Columbia, to house a Museum of the Building Arts, and for other purposes
- Date: 1980 11/04/1978
- Creator: 95th Congress, Sess. 2, 1978
- Creator: 95th Congress, Sess. 2, 1978
Exterior of the U.S. National Museum (A&I Building)
- Date: c. 1920s
- Creator: Unknown
- Creator: Unknown
- SI History Bibliography
Report of the Superintending Architects of Fireproof Building for National Museum, 1880
- Date: 1881
- Creator: Cluss, Adolph 1825-1905
- Creator: Cluss, Adolph 1825-1905
The Birth of a Building: Constructing the United States National Museum
- Date: June 20, 2013
- Creator: Kira M. Sobers
- Description: The birth of the United States National Museum, now the National Museum of Natural History, as told through construction photographs.
