Focusing on the border between the U.S. and Mexico, the exhibition The Wall/El Muro: What Is a Border Wall? approaches its hot-button subject in multiple ways—as a physical boundary, a work of architecture, a concept, and a mindset. The show at the National Building Museum in Washington, DC, which will run for a year, brings a range of perspectives, from the people who have built the wall over many decades to those who live alongside it today.
Visitors first encounter a wall of vertical wooden slats set at a 45-degree angle, allowing views through it from certain vantage points and blocking them from others. The exhibition starts with a broad overview, including a 1728 map of native territories in the borderland region, a timeline showing the history of the border wall, and a video stitching together Google images to create a contemporary aerial perspective of the border.
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