This post comes from new DCist contributor Sam Biddle Like a host of museums not affiliated with the Smithsonian and not on the National Mall, the National Building Museum exists slightly off the tourists’ beaten path. However, as dedicated urban enthusiasts the museum is one of our favorites, and extremely Metro-accessible to boot. This year the museum is celebrating its 25th anniversary with a free summer-long film series that began this weekend and will continue…

This DCist thinks the National Building Museum is unsung. It is the most amazing space in this fair city (in the gigantic red-brick Montgomery Meigs-built old Pensions Building) and the exhibits are not run of the mill. Who knew concrete could be interesting? The museum’s latest show, “Jewish Washington: Scrapbook of an American Community,” is really a classic immigrant story: Jews get persecuted in other countries, come to the U.S. and D.C. for a…