Snarkitecture Turns National Building Museum into Massive Ball-Pit

Now through September 7, you can take a “swim” in a massive “BEACH” that has taken over the National Building Museum‘s Great Hall. Spanning 10,000-square-feet, the BEACH was created in partnership with Brooklyn-based Snarkitecture to offer the people of Washington D.C. a one-of-a-kind installation as part of the NBM’s “Summer Block Party.”

The “ocean” is essentially a ball-pit comprised of nearly one million recyclable translucent plastic balls. It is contained within a mirrored, all-white enclosure flanked by a 50-foot-wide “shoreline” that offers visitors the option to wade the “water” or sit back and relax.

“Visitors are welcome to ‘swim’ in the ocean, or can spend an afternoon at the ‘shore’s’ edge reading a good book, play beach-related activities such as paddleball, grab a refreshing drink at the snack bar, or dangle their feet in the ocean off the pier,” says the National Building Museum.