{"id":231695,"date":"2026-01-10T23:27:15","date_gmt":"2026-01-10T23:27:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/231695\/"},"modified":"2026-01-10T23:27:15","modified_gmt":"2026-01-10T23:27:15","slug":"national-museum-of-the-united-states-army-skidmore-owings-merrill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/231695\/","title":{"rendered":"National Museum of the United States Army \/ Skidmore, Owings &#038; Merrill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"js-image-size__link \" href=\"https:\/\/www.archdaily.com\/951365\/national-museum-of-the-united-states-army-skidmore-owings-and-merrill\/5fad86a863c017d2ee000131-national-museum-of-the-united-states-army-skidmore-owings-and-merrill-photo\" rel=\"attachment nofollow noopener\" style=\"width: 100%; height: 100%;\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"National Museum of the United States Army \/ Skidmore, Owings &amp; Merrill - Exterior Photography, Facade\" data-nr-picture-id=\"5fad86a863c017d2ee000131\" fetchpriority=\"high\" height=\"352\" itemprop=\"image\" loading=\"eager\" longdesc=\"https:\/\/www.archdaily.com\/951365\/national-museum-of-the-united-states-army-skidmore-owings-and-merrill\/5fad86a863c017d2ee000131-national-museum-of-the-united-states-army-skidmore-owings-and-merrill-photo\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/NMUSA_SOM_DaveBurk_002_jpg.jpg\" style=\"min-height: var(--featured-height, auto); aspect-ratio: auto 640 \/ 352\" width=\"640\"\/><\/a>\u00a9 Dave Burk | SOM<\/p>\n<p class=\"thumbs afd-desktop-e clearfix\"><a class=\"thumbs__link\" data-nr-picture-id=\"5fad87aa63c01743d10001a7\" href=\"https:\/\/www.archdaily.com\/951365\/national-museum-of-the-united-states-army-skidmore-owings-and-merrill\/5fad87aa63c01743d10001a7-national-museum-of-the-united-states-army-skidmore-owings-and-merrill-photo\" rel=\"attachment nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"National Museum of the United States Army \/ Skidmore, Owings &amp; Merrill - Interior Photography, Facade\" class=\"thumbs__img b-lazy\" data-nr-picture-id=\"5fad87aa63c01743d10001a7\" data-pin-nopin=\"true\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/NMUSA_SOM_DaveBurk_013_jpg.jpg\" height=\"125\" longdesc=\"https:\/\/www.archdaily.com\/951365\/national-museum-of-the-united-states-army-skidmore-owings-and-merrill\/5fad87aa63c01743d10001a7-national-museum-of-the-united-states-army-skidmore-owings-and-merrill-photo\" title=\"\u00a9 Dave Burk | SOM\" width=\"125\"\/><\/a><a class=\"thumbs__link\" data-nr-picture-id=\"5fad860863c01743d100019e\" href=\"https:\/\/www.archdaily.com\/951365\/national-museum-of-the-united-states-army-skidmore-owings-and-merrill\/5fad860863c01743d100019e-national-museum-of-the-united-states-army-skidmore-owings-and-merrill-photo\" rel=\"attachment nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"National Museum of the United States Army \/ Skidmore, Owings &amp; Merrill - Interior Photography\" class=\"thumbs__img b-lazy\" data-nr-picture-id=\"5fad860863c01743d100019e\" data-pin-nopin=\"true\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/NMUSA_SOM_DaveBurk_018_jpg.jpg\" height=\"125\" longdesc=\"https:\/\/www.archdaily.com\/951365\/national-museum-of-the-united-states-army-skidmore-owings-and-merrill\/5fad860863c01743d100019e-national-museum-of-the-united-states-army-skidmore-owings-and-merrill-photo\" title=\"\u00a9 Dave Burk | SOM\" width=\"125\"\/><\/a><a class=\"thumbs__link\" data-nr-picture-id=\"5fad86c363c017d2ee000133\" href=\"https:\/\/www.archdaily.com\/951365\/national-museum-of-the-united-states-army-skidmore-owings-and-merrill\/5fad86c363c017d2ee000133-national-museum-of-the-united-states-army-skidmore-owings-and-merrill-photo\" rel=\"attachment nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"National Museum of the United States Army \/ Skidmore, Owings &amp; Merrill - Exterior Photography, Facade\" class=\"thumbs__img b-lazy\" data-nr-picture-id=\"5fad86c363c017d2ee000133\" data-pin-nopin=\"true\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/NMUSA_SOM_DaveBurk_005_jpg.jpg\" height=\"125\" longdesc=\"https:\/\/www.archdaily.com\/951365\/national-museum-of-the-united-states-army-skidmore-owings-and-merrill\/5fad86c363c017d2ee000133-national-museum-of-the-united-states-army-skidmore-owings-and-merrill-photo\" title=\"\u00a9 Dave Burk | SOM\" width=\"125\"\/><\/a><a class=\"thumbs__link\" data-nr-picture-id=\"5fad870c63c01743d10001a4\" href=\"https:\/\/www.archdaily.com\/951365\/national-museum-of-the-united-states-army-skidmore-owings-and-merrill\/5fad870c63c01743d10001a4-national-museum-of-the-united-states-army-skidmore-owings-and-merrill-photo\" rel=\"attachment nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"National Museum of the United States Army \/ Skidmore, Owings &amp; 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Merrill - Exterior Photography, Facade\" data-nr-picture-id=\"5fad86c363c017d2ee000133\" height=\"427\" itemprop=\"image\" loading=\"lazy\" longdesc=\"https:\/\/www.archdaily.com\/951365\/national-museum-of-the-united-states-army-skidmore-owings-and-merrill\/5fad86c363c017d2ee000133-national-museum-of-the-united-states-army-skidmore-owings-and-merrill-photo\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/1768087633_768_NMUSA_SOM_DaveBurk_005_jpg.jpg\" width=\"640\"\/>\u00a9 Dave Burk | SOM<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Text description provided by the architects. The National Museum of the United States Army (NMUSA), a cultural institution of national significance that is the first to tell the story of the oldest branch of the United States military. The building \u2013 which is located just 20 miles outside of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.archdaily.com\/tag\/washington\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Washington<\/a>, D.C. \u2013 is designed to serve as a center of education, and the Army&#8217;s symbolic front door. By walking visitors through every generation of the Army, the museum focuses not on battles or wars, but on the individual soldier \u2013 a centuries-long narrative of honor, sacrifice, and valor.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/loader-blue.gif\" alt=\"Content Loader\" style=\"width: 40px; margin: 24px;\"\/><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u00a9 Dave Burk | SOM + 13 Share Share Facebook Twitter Mail Pinterest Whatsapp Or https:\/\/www.archdaily.com\/951365\/national-museum-of-the-united-states-army-skidmore-owings-and-merrill \u00a9 Dave&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":231696,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[859,437,434,435,436,862,438,146,125952,39356,85,46,11017,21229,125953,730],"class_list":{"0":"post-231695","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts-and-design","8":"tag-architecture","9":"tag-arts","10":"tag-arts-and-design","11":"tag-artsanddesign","12":"tag-artsdesign","13":"tag-cultural-architecture","14":"tag-design","15":"tag-entertainment","16":"tag-fort-belvoir","17":"tag-iceberg","18":"tag-il","19":"tag-israel","20":"tag-museum","21":"tag-museums-exhibit","22":"tag-on-facebook","23":"tag-washington"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231695","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=231695"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231695\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/231696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}