‘Building Stories’ Exhibition to Bring Kids Books, Architecture to Spotlight

A sweeping exhibition of storytelling opens Jan. 21 on the Nationwide Constructing Museum in Washington, D.C. 

The long-term exhibition, titled “Constructing Tales,” bridges the hole between children and adults on the intersecting topics of structure, engineering, building, and design which are present in children’s books.  

That includes linked, immersive landscapes, “Constructing Tales” can be cut up into 4 sub-exhibits: Gallery One: “Constructing Readers,” Gallery Two: “Your Residence, My Residence,” Gallery Three: “Scale Play,” and Gallery 4: “Wider World.” The primary gallery introduces the constructing blocks of kids’s books and the foundations of a younger reader’s expertise: shapes, colours, kinds, and texture. These are juxtaposed with examples in structure of how type and form inform content material, and vice-versa. 

“Your Residence, My Residence” explores one of the crucial prevalent themes in kids’s literature — dwelling — by means of the gateway of one of the crucial ubiquitous tales concerning the topic: The Three Little Pigs. Gallery Three investigates one other vital theme younger readers confront: navigating the world whereas small (suppose Alice in Wonderland or James and the Large Peach). Visitors will stroll by means of a passage that may give the phantasm that they’re altering dimension, and discover this phenomena by means of literature. 

The ultimate gallery will unite the themes of the earlier three, and invite visitors to write down, create tales, and construct. 

The exhibition can be complemented by a free academic program, the Constructing Readers Membership, by which children can proceed to discover the subjects of structure, engineering, building, and design discovered within the pages of kids’s favourite books.

To study extra or plan a go to to this celebration of studying and constructing, go to the National Building Museum’s website.