Other objects have been exhibited at the Renwick Gallery, another Smithsonian museum, a block from the White House.
Last year the Metropolitan Museum Historic District Coalition, a group that represents some residents of 15 buildings mostly along Fifth Avenue, sued the city and the museum to block a plan, since postponed, to add space under the Fifth Avenue fountains and under either side of the Lehman Wing for storage, offices and the Costume Institute.
I'll circle the twin waterfalls and the glass hull of the museum, still blocked from the city by concrete barriers, chain-link fence, and an unfinished transportation hub whose white ribbing suggests a Mesozoic fossil.
Baltimore was the first city to recognize Poe's talents, with an award for one of his short stories, said Mr. Jerome, who has been the sole employee of the Poe House since 1979, when the city began running the museum just blocks from Poe's grave.
In the video above, he demonstrates these two types of zooming techniques which allow the user to zoom out to see what else is around him, much like he would with an online map, select something to click on maybe the museum two blocks over and then zoom back in.
We had missed the opening hours of the Museo Anti-Mafia, but Ms. Fontana, who manages the museum, walked a block to unlock it for us.
The Madison Art Center in Wisconsin, which competes with a hands-on children's museum just a block away, has started a host of programs for schoolchildren: art classes on Saturday mornings, family activities on Saturday afternoons, workshops and after-school tours.
The diversity of that selection – a vast modern art museum, an office block for a venerable imperial financial institution, an electronics factory in an industrially depressed area – contrasts somewhat with today's record of City skyscraper, luxury flats, luxury flats, luxury flats.
The museum itself, two blocks from the White House, is a trip, architecturally speaking.
A Qatari version of the British Museum's new "Haj" show will very likely have objects from the Topkapi Palace museum that were blocked by the Turkish authorities.
