National Building Museum Announces Summer Plans
The National Building Museum has announced plans for its summer installation of ICEBERGS, designed by James Corner Field Operations.
The unique new display will span the museum’s Great Hall and pay homage to the beautiful, underwater world of glacial ice fields by providing an immersive experience that will surely help visitors beat the heat. Features will include a “water line” suspended 20-feet high that will offer up panoramic views from above the ocean surface all the way down below the huge icebergs.
Visitors will also be able to climb to the top of the tallest one, which reaches the third-story balcony and comes in at a height of 56 feet; navigate an undersea bridge; and visit caves and grottos on the ocean floor. If last year’s popular installation of BEACH is any indication—more than 180,000 visitors came through—the museum should be packing in visitors this summer.
ICEBERGS is part of the museum’s imaginative Summer Block Party series and will be open to the public from July 2 through Sept. 5. To help pay for last year’s successful BEACH installation, the innovative museum took to Indiegogo, the popular international crowdfunding site.
