Tools and equipment are essential to the work of the architects, engineers, and tradespeople who design and build our world. The National Building Museum’s collections include a variety of tools from ...

What information can a CD-R, a newspaper clipping, and a business card tell us about a museum? When they are all part of an accession file, they can give us important clues about the history of ...

Documenting and preserving the history of the built environment means looking beyond finished buildings to the smaller, seemingly inconsequential materials that reveal how they were designed and ...