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Unveiling Hidden Treasures with The National Building Museum

Unveiling Hidden Treasures with The National Building Museum

Nancy Bateman, Senior Registrar and Director of Collections for the National Building Museum, joins us to talk about VISIBLE VAULT, the new open collections exhibition.

February 9, 2025

The National Building Museum has announced unprecedented access to thousands of artifacts that have been stored behind closed doors, some of them for decades.

VISIBLE VAULT: Open Collections Storage is a new permanent exhibition that opened to the public on December 14, and showcases both significant and commonplace historical artifacts ranging from the 1800’s to the present day.

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Unveiling Hidden Treasures with The National Building Museum

Nancy Bateman, Senior Registrar and Director of Collections for the National Building Museum, joins us to talk about VISIBLE VAULT, the new open collections exhibition.

Recently, we were joined by Nancy Bateman, Senior Registrar and Director of Collections for the National Building Museum, to talk about this latest collection.

Watch and listen in as Nancy tell us where the idea of Visible Vault came from, and gives us a sneak peak of some of her favorite artifacts in the collection.