Randuwa II: National Building Museum: Play Work Build

Monday, September 25, 2023

National Building Museum: Play Work Build

Play Work Build is a space for children to explore and play with both handheld blocks and giant life-sized ones. And to be completely honest, it felt a little bit like germs' paradise! It's also a look through time at the evolution of building block toys with a small fragment of the total collection with the museum's archives. This is the part that is for the adults. Or for the part of the adult that is still a child.

The wall directly to the left of the entrance has this immense image of shelves full of toys. The docent told be that this is what it looks like up-stairs. Oh, for a golden ticket to visit this attic! Though I mustn't act like a spoiled child. After all, I have been into the bowels of the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History both on The National Mall and out at their Leesburg, VA facility. Opened a draw (allowed to) to discover a triceratops horn! And the conservation studios of the National Gallery of Art. Up close and personal with masterpieces by Caravaggio, James McNeill Whistler, and a couple of lovely watercolors by Winslow Homer (all allowed).