Brrr -- 'Icebergs' Coming to the National Building Museum This Summer

If you're looking to cool down this summer, the National Building Museum has just the exhibit for you: it's decking out the gigantic Great Hall with icebergs.

"Icebergs" will be open to the public starting July 2 and running through Sept. 15 as part of the museum's Summer Block Party series, according to a museum statement.

The aim will be to present the underwater world of glacial ice fields to visitors through a massive display in the Great Hall. A "water line" will be suspended about 20 feet above the floor, so when you enter it will be like walking underwater underneath icebergs, and on the floors above you can look down on the icy scene.

One "iceberg" will be 56 feet vertically, reaching to the third story balcony. There will be a viewing area inside of it and an undersea bridge you can walk on, as well as caves and grottos to explore.

"ICEBERGS invokes the surreal underwater-world of glacial ice fields," James Corner, founder and director of James Corner Field Operations which designed the exhibit, said in the statement. "Such a world is both beautiful and ominous given our current epoch of climate change, ice-melt, and rising seas. The installation creates an ambient field of texture, movement, and interaction, as in an unfolding landscape of multiples, distinct from a static, single object."

Tickets will be $10 for members and $16 for non-members.

Graphic via the National Building Museum