The National Buildings Museum, which was founded in 1980, is perhaps the only museum focusing exclusively on the art and science of design and building construction in the United States. Exhibits and programs explore the nation’s constructed environment and examine innovations in construction, engineering, design, and landscape architecture through urban planning models, photos, and other types of media. The museum’s most important artifact is the building in which it is housed. This structure was revolutionary in design when it was first constructed and is now, according to its own brochure, a “case study of achievement in the building arts.”