After crossing the "Zebra Crossing" into the museum, we grab a quick delicious snack at the Firehook Bakery located inside and spend some time appreciating the interior space. Both Julie and Mark are big fans of this local bakery chain. Julie talks a little about the history of the building, and for details we go back to a flashback of our Chinatown Podcast, which would be great paired with this one. (3:54)

We visit the Cityscapes Revealed exhibit, and explore the world of building materials. (8:27)

We play White Buildings by Marqui Adora, which comes to us via the Podsafe Music Network. (16:13)

We check out the children's area, The Building Zone. (19:07)

We play John Philip Sousa's Stars and Stripes Forever March by the US Marine Band. (21:28)

We visit the Washington: Symbol and City exhibit and enjoy relating that to our own history in the Washington, DC area, as well as discovering more about the history of the various plans for the city and the variety of memorials and monumental buildings here. This exhibit finishes our visit. (24:40)

Our Opening Theme Music is Garden Walk by Kim Evans, our walking music is from Find Me by H, and our logo design is by Kathleen Hamm at Hamm Multimedia.

We have a short but worthwhile National Building Museum Photo Album.