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Anyone who grew up spending their summer vacations in Cape Cod, Ocean City, the Jersey Shore or any other seaside resort destination probably played a lot of miniature golf. It’s great fun. Regular golf sucks, but putting a florescent golf ball through a series of obstacles and architectural features is a choice way to spend an afternoon.

However, getting to the beach is a slog, and the District has a definite lack of mini-golf. That’s no good for staycationers. But this summer, it’ll be different.

The National Building Museum announced yesterday that it is adding a mini-golf course this summer. Mini-golf in a museum? Yeah, we’re listening.

The Building Museum’s course is only 12 holes instead of the full 18, but the design for each hole comes from the machinations of area architects and development firms. (Perhaps JBG’s contribution will jut out in front of the others, or the one by STUDIOS Architecture will be super-modern with nothing but clean lines.)

As novel as the thought of playing miniature golf inside a museum is, it’s not unique to the National Building Museum. The Franklin G. Burroughs-Simeon B. Chapin Art Museum in Myrtle Beach, S.C.—and if any town has a surfeit of mini-golf, it’s that place—features nine holes inspired by the likes of Edvard Munch, Peter Max and Kandinsky, the last of which sounds like it could be a very tricky hole.

The holes at the Building Museum will take their forms from buildings, bridges, landscape features or monuments, both real and fantastical, according to a press release.

Mini-golf at the Building Museum begins July 4 and runs through Labor Day. A round will cost $3 with museum admission or membership or $5 without.