National Air and Space Museum Press Kit

Building on the National Mall Fact Sheet

	Design	Hellmuth, Obata, + Kassabaum, the St. Louis-based architecture firm that later designed the museum's Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center in Virginia
	Cost	$40 million
	Opening	July 1, 1976, as part of the national bicentennial celebrations
	Web site	www.nasm.si.edu
	Location	Downtown Washington D.C., on the National Mall between Fourth and Seventh Street, near the U.S. Capitol. Mailing address: Independence Avenue at Sixth Street, Southwest, Washington D.C. 20560
	Visitors	1 million: July 25, 1976 200 million: Jan. 24, 1998
	Attendance CY 2009	6,985,869
	Dimensions of Building
	Length	635 ft.
	Width	225 ft.
	Height	82 ft., 9 in.
	Exhibition Floor Space	161,145 sq. ft.
	Artifacts on Display	61 aircraft, 51 large space artifacts, some 2,000 smaller items -as of June 1, 2007
	Facilities	22 exhibition galleries Lockheed Martin IMAX Theater (487 seats) Albert Einstein Planetarium (233 seats) Museum store Planetarium store Flight simulator gallery Public dining facility Offices Library and archives
	Amenities	Free docent-led tours ATM machines
	Newest Exhibition	"Moving Beyond Earth” opened Nov. 2009
	Hours	10 a.m. - 5:30 p.m. daily. (Closed Dec. 25.)