A Museum For All Seasons

“The National Building Museum turns a quarter-century old this fall, and tonight lots of folks will be celebrating underneath the stupendous Corinthian columns of the museum’s Great Hall. There is, indeed, much to celebrate… It is not an architecture museum. Not engineering, not city planning. Not a museum for stonemasons, sheet metal workers, steel fabricators, real estate developers, social historians, taste makers, apartment dwellers, homeowners and… the list is almost endless. But if the museum is not one of these things, it is all of them.”