Friday
March 29, 2024
7:30 pm -
10:00 pm
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Packard Campus Theater
John Wayne, John Ford, Technicolor and Ireland… what could go wrong? Absolutely nothing. Wayne plays a retired boxer who returns to his homeland to buy back the family farm. He falls in love with the sister of his competitor for the farm. All leads to fisticuffs but then ends up with true love prevailing. Maureen O’Hara plays the feisty Mary Kate. Victor McLaglen and...
Friday
March 29, 2024
10:00 am -
5:00 pm
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Graphic Arts Gallery
We celebrate the work of editorial cartoonist Herbert L. Block—better known as “Herblock”—with an ongoing display of ten original drawings that change every six months, drawn from the Library’s extensive Herbert L. Block Collection. Each new installation looks back at the world 50 years before through Block’s incisive cartoons.
Friday
March 29, 2024
10:00 am -
5:00 pm
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George and Ira Gershwin Room
Experience the glamour and sophistication of the 1920s and 1930s in this permanent tribute to brothers George and Ira Gershwin, who helped provide a musical background to the period. The exhibition contains a wealth of materials that provide insight into their careers and personalities, including manuscript and printed music, lyric sheets and librettos, correspondence, photos, paintings, and drawings, all from the Library's Gershwin Collection,...
Friday
March 29, 2024
10:00 am -
5:00 pm
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South Gallery
This major exhibition examines the longstanding impulse of Americans to join together for common purposes such as fellowship, charity, professional growth, emergency services, societal reform and community building.
Friday
March 29, 2024
10:00 am -
5:00 pm
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Great Hall - 2nd Floor (LJ-200-E)
This display includes material from the Library’s collections that highlights the work of each of the past Gershwin prize recipients as well as the 2024 recipients, songwriting duo Elton John and Bernie Taupin.
Friday
March 29, 2024
10:00 am -
5:00 pm
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Southwest Gallery
A major exhibition organized by the Annenberg Space for Photography in Los Angeles and drawn from the photo collections of the Library of Congress, "Not an Ostrich" presents a taste of this institution’s spectacular holdings of more than 14 million images. Photos reproduced for this exhibition, made between 1839 and today, trace the evolution of photography, from daguerreotypes and other early processes to contemporary...
Friday
March 29, 2024
10:00 am -
5:00 pm
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Great Hall - 2nd Floor (LJ-200-E)
For more than a hundred years, cherry blossoms have signaled the arrival of spring in Washington, DC. They have become symbols of peace and friendship between the United States and Japan. This display, "Sakura: Icon of Spring", features the Library of Congress’s extensive Sakura collections and a new book on the subject.
Friday
March 29, 2024
10:00 am -
5:00 pm
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Southwest Pavilion
Take a trip through this major exhibition, a re-created version of Jefferson’s library, which assembles 6,487 volumes that founded the Library of Congress, and learn how one of America’s greatest thinkers was inspired through the world of books.
Friday
March 29, 2024
10:30 am -
11:30 am
EDT
Main Reading Room
The Library of Congress welcomes visitors to experience its grand Main Reading Room in the Thomas Jefferson Building. Usually reserved for credentialed researchers, this access will offer visitors a glimpse inside one of Washington’s most beautiful spaces.
Saturday
March 30, 2024
10:00 am -
5:00 pm
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Graphic Arts Gallery
We celebrate the work of editorial cartoonist Herbert L. Block—better known as “Herblock”—with an ongoing display of ten original drawings that change every six months, drawn from the Library’s extensive Herbert L. Block Collection. Each new installation looks back at the world 50 years before through Block’s incisive cartoons.
Saturday
March 30, 2024
10:00 am -
5:00 pm
EDT
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George and Ira Gershwin Room
Experience the glamour and sophistication of the 1920s and 1930s in this permanent tribute to brothers George and Ira Gershwin, who helped provide a musical background to the period. The exhibition contains a wealth of materials that provide insight into their careers and personalities, including manuscript and printed music, lyric sheets and librettos, correspondence, photos, paintings, and drawings, all from the Library's Gershwin Collection,...
Saturday
March 30, 2024
10:00 am -
5:00 pm
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South Gallery
This major exhibition examines the longstanding impulse of Americans to join together for common purposes such as fellowship, charity, professional growth, emergency services, societal reform and community building.
Saturday
March 30, 2024
10:00 am -
5:00 pm
EDT
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Great Hall - 2nd Floor (LJ-200-E)
This display includes material from the Library’s collections that highlights the work of each of the past Gershwin prize recipients as well as the 2024 recipients, songwriting duo Elton John and Bernie Taupin.
Saturday
March 30, 2024
10:00 am -
5:00 pm
EDT
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Southwest Gallery
A major exhibition organized by the Annenberg Space for Photography in Los Angeles and drawn from the photo collections of the Library of Congress, "Not an Ostrich" presents a taste of this institution’s spectacular holdings of more than 14 million images. Photos reproduced for this exhibition, made between 1839 and today, trace the evolution of photography, from daguerreotypes and other early processes to contemporary...
Saturday
March 30, 2024
10:00 am -
5:00 pm
EDT
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Great Hall - 2nd Floor (LJ-200-E)
For more than a hundred years, cherry blossoms have signaled the arrival of spring in Washington, DC. They have become symbols of peace and friendship between the United States and Japan. This display, "Sakura: Icon of Spring", features the Library of Congress’s extensive Sakura collections and a new book on the subject.
Saturday
March 30, 2024
10:00 am -
5:00 pm
EDT
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Southwest Pavilion
Take a trip through this major exhibition, a re-created version of Jefferson’s library, which assembles 6,487 volumes that founded the Library of Congress, and learn how one of America’s greatest thinkers was inspired through the world of books.
Tuesday
April 2, 2024
8:00 pm -
10:00 pm
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Coolidge Auditorium (LJ-G45A)
World-renowned Spaniard Jordi Savall is a viol player, conductor, and musical scholar who has devoted his career to reviving and interpreting the vast repertoire of early music. He directs an intimate group of virtuosic colleagues from Hespèrion XXI in music by Emilio de’ Cavalieri, Girolamo Frescobaldi, Bartolomé de Selma y Salaverde, Tobias Hume and others.
Tuesday
April 2, 2024
10:00 am -
5:00 pm
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George and Ira Gershwin Room
Experience the glamour and sophistication of the 1920s and 1930s in this permanent tribute to brothers George and Ira Gershwin, who helped provide a musical background to the period. The exhibition contains a wealth of materials that provide insight into their careers and personalities, including manuscript and printed music, lyric sheets and librettos, correspondence, photos, paintings, and drawings, all from the Library's Gershwin Collection,...
Tuesday
April 2, 2024
10:00 am -
5:00 pm
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South Gallery
This major exhibition examines the longstanding impulse of Americans to join together for common purposes such as fellowship, charity, professional growth, emergency services, societal reform and community building.
Tuesday
April 2, 2024
10:00 am -
5:00 pm
EDT
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Great Hall - 2nd Floor (LJ-200-E)
This display includes material from the Library’s collections that highlights the work of each of the past Gershwin prize recipients as well as the 2024 recipients, songwriting duo Elton John and Bernie Taupin.
Tuesday
April 2, 2024
10:00 am -
5:00 pm
EDT
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Southwest Gallery
A major exhibition organized by the Annenberg Space for Photography in Los Angeles and drawn from the photo collections of the Library of Congress, "Not an Ostrich" presents a taste of this institution’s spectacular holdings of more than 14 million images. Photos reproduced for this exhibition, made between 1839 and today, trace the evolution of photography, from daguerreotypes and other early processes to contemporary...
Tuesday
April 2, 2024
10:00 am -
5:00 pm
EDT
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Great Hall - 2nd Floor (LJ-200-E)
For more than a hundred years, cherry blossoms have signaled the arrival of spring in Washington, DC. They have become symbols of peace and friendship between the United States and Japan. This display, "Sakura: Icon of Spring", features the Library of Congress’s extensive Sakura collections and a new book on the subject.
Tuesday
April 2, 2024
10:00 am -
5:00 pm
EDT
Add to calendar
Southwest Pavilion
Take a trip through this major exhibition, a re-created version of Jefferson’s library, which assembles 6,487 volumes that founded the Library of Congress, and learn how one of America’s greatest thinkers was inspired through the world of books.
Tuesday
April 2, 2024
10:30 am -
11:30 am
EDT
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Main Reading Room
The Library of Congress welcomes visitors to experience its grand Main Reading Room in the Thomas Jefferson Building. Usually reserved for credentialed researchers, this access will offer visitors a glimpse inside one of Washington’s most beautiful spaces.
Wednesday
April 3, 2024
10:00 am -
5:00 pm
EDT
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George and Ira Gershwin Room
Experience the glamour and sophistication of the 1920s and 1930s in this permanent tribute to brothers George and Ira Gershwin, who helped provide a musical background to the period. The exhibition contains a wealth of materials that provide insight into their careers and personalities, including manuscript and printed music, lyric sheets and librettos, correspondence, photos, paintings, and drawings, all from the Library's Gershwin Collection,...