KANSAS CITY, Mo. — There are walls — and then there are walls. Some, like the one that separated East and West Berlin, are designed to keep people in. Others, like the one snaking along portions of the southern border of the United States, are intended to keep people out.

But the “Walking Wall” created by the artist Andy Goldsworthy at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art is an attraction in its own right, recalling centuries of wall-building craftsmanship. A slow-motion performance piece, the wall will come to rest in November as a 100-ton addition to the museum’s permanent collection.

For about 10 days every month, beginning in March, a team of British dry stone wallers has deconstructed the tail of the wall and moved the stones about 100 yards to the head, where they have rebuilt it.