National Building Museum, Washington DC

Really short museum but can’t beat the price it’s 10 bucks for an adult. Takes a little over an hour to walk through if you take your time. I personally like more extensive museums but it was still cool to check out

For $10, the museum was worth a visit. There are six exhibits; our favorites were the Mini Memories (miniature building souvenirs collection), Brick City (Lego displays), and House and Home.

Beautiful 1st floor lobby thats free to enter. To see the museum exhibits you do have to pay 10 bucks or something.

This museum is a nice but a small representation of the countries infrastructure. There are five exhibits open currently, kids building blocks, legos, infrastructure around the country, houses, and housing development solutions (closes mid October). You enter the building from the street and there are towering columns in the main foyer. A three story walk path surrounds the foyer with stairs and elevators that are accessible to all the levels. You check in on the bottom floor and immediately to your left you seen the countries infrastructure exhibit. Lots on material of construction, monuments around the country and history of our buildings. Upstairs includes building block and Lego exhibits for the kids and one on housing development over the years. I found them all interesting, was a little disappointed that there weren’t more exhibits, but hopefully in the future they will expand

This was a very disappointing museum. We toured it on Oct 9th ($34 for 2 adults and 2 teens) and they only had 5 exhibits open, most are permanently closed. If you have small kids then they can play with some Legos and foam blocks. The website makes it look like they have all these exhibits but they do not. Would not recommend paying for this “museum”.

It was a beautiful building and had a cool area for kids, but not great for toddlers. Also the play room didn’t have A/C so was very hot and humid. Worth a single visit but the ticket price makes me want to not go back.

Worth a visit specifically on rainy days for families with children. But expected more exhibits!

Worth a stop. Beautiful atrium. Exhibits are incredibly educational. Great for kids, great for adults. A great use of a few hours! (Not free, it's $10 for adults, $7 for students).

This museum is honestly one of the worst museums I have ever been to.

It’s barely a museum. This place is an okay place at best if you have children. It costs $10 for essentially what is two rooms of content and they’re rooms for children to build with legos.

The only exhibit that has any information is the House and home exhibit. That is the only reason I’m giving this place 2 stars because at least one portion of it attempts to be a museum.

If you’re coming here to learn about buildings or wanting to see any cool buildings don’t come here. Just walk around D. C.instead.

Such an impressive building, and we enjoyed the museum. The lego exhibit and building blocks were great for our kids. The gift shop is large and offers unique items. The cafe was closed unfortunately. Little different part of town near Chinatown. Very close to metro stop.

Impressive building with exhibits for everyone, but kids especially would enjoy the big blue blocks and the Lego room

Such a colossal building.
Wonderful for little ones who like to free play build with blocks big and small.

The museum itself is interesting and engaging, well worth the price of $10 for an adult, with more informative displays alongside blocks/Legos for kids to play with. Beyond that, the building itself is free to enter and is stunning and monumental, a hidden gem. The best part might be the museum shop though, which has a great book selection alongside all kinds of cool little items.