Behold, the National Building Museum’s BIG Maze. (Linda Davidson/The Washington Post)

“It’s not that we didn’t love mini-golf, but it was like, ‘enough already,’ ” says Cathy Frankel, vice president for exhibitions and collections at the National Building Museum. “It was enormously popular, but it was time to do something different.” So the museum put away the putters and won’t be setting up a temporary mini-golf course as it did the past two summers. For the “something different,” the museum teamed up with international architecture firm BIG-Bjarke Ingels Group to construct a maze right in the Great Hall. The BIG Maze opens Friday, so here’s a chance to get in a little practice. Take out your pen — and look out for dead ends.

LOOK UP

The museum’s “ubergoal is that people walk out of here looking at their built world differently,” Frankel says. “We think this is sort of on the microlevel of that — forcing people to look up [as they navigate the maze] will make them look at our building differently.”...Continue Reading

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