Professional Volunteers Needed!
ORGANIZATION: The Branch Museum of Architecture and Design
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The Branch Museum of Architecture and Design is hosting a Family Build Day in conjunction with WVCE's Community Idea Stations. We're looking for an engineer, an architect, and a landscape architect to run stations. The stations consist of a build activity related to each respective career, and the associated volunteer will first spend some time talking about his/her career to a group of children. The volunteer will then assist with the activity.
More opportunities with The Branch Museum of Architecture and Design
No additional volunteer opportunities at this time.
About The Branch Museum of Architecture and Design
Location:
2501 Monument Avenue, Richmond, VA 23220, US
Mission Statement
The Branch elevates awareness of the transformative power of architecture and design.
Description
Architect John Russell Pope’s Tudor-Revival design for prominent financier John Kerr Branch resulted in a 27,000-square-foot residence featuring eleven levels; a chapel-like studio; and fireproofing by means of concrete floors and masonry walls. With its long gallery, great hall, commodious library and dining room on the main floor, the house, completed in 1919, provided ample space for displaying the Branches’ extensive collection of European tapestries, textiles, and furnishings.
Pope also designed the Thomas Jefferson Memorial, the National Archives, and the West Wing of the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., as well as Richmond’s Broad Street Station (now the Science Museum of Virginia). His residence for the Branch family is the only individual Monument Avenue building listed on the National Register of Historic Places and awarded landmark status by the Commonwealth of Virginia and the City of Richmond.
In 2003, the Virginia Center for Architecture Foundation purchased the landmark Tudor-Revival mansion designed by John Russell Pope, one of America’s major architects. This museum on Monument Avenue, serving the Commonwealth, expands exponentially the Foundation’s ability to provide exhibitions and programs to educate and entertain Virginians and visitors, and transforms it from its beginnings as a scholarship fund to a public cultural institution.
CAUSE AREAS
WHEN
WHERE
The Branch Museum of Architecture and Design2501 Monument AvenueRichmond, VA 23220
DATE POSTED
January 8, 2018
SKILLS
- Landscaping
- Architecture
- Mechanical Engineering
GOOD FOR
N/A
REQUIREMENTS
- Orientation or Training
- 5-6 hours, one day