With our lease signed, permits secured, and our build and design teams all in lock-step, we’re proud to announce that this week construction officially kicked off on the Museum of Unnatural History, a monument to the long-forgotten “Unnaturalist Society”—a group of bizarre, outcast scientists who believed that “the path to truth often leads through the absurd.” More importantly, the site will will also double as 826DC’s own writing center, hosting workshops, drop-in tutoring and innovative publishing opportunities for students throughout the district (learn more here, and here, and here).But first: demolition. Our construction team, HITT Contracting, Inc., descended onto our new site in Columbia Heights this week to gut the ceilings, strip the floors, and set the stage for museum displays, “build your own species” stations, dioramas, as well as student study and tutoring areas come this fall.
We’re on our way, but we still need all the help we can get. So if you’d like to donate to help construction or future programming, you can find out more here.
In the meantime, check out the gallery below for a tour of the contained mayhem, and stay tuned for more construction updates as we move toward our opening.