Tuesday
April 16, 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 16, 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 16, 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.
Tuesday
April 16, 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...
Tuesday
April 16, 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.
Tuesday
April 16, 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.
Tuesday
April 16, 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.
Wednesday
April 17, 2024
12:00 pm -
1:00 pm
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Whittall Pavilion (LJ-G45E)
Professor Harbert is an ethnomusicologist and author of the book “Instrument of the State: A Century of Music in Louisiana's Angola Prison" (Oxford University Press, 2023). The book and his recent documentary on the same topic, “Follow Me Down,” will be the subjects of his talk. Angola Prison is the largest and one of the most notorious prisons in the United States, built into...
Wednesday
April 17, 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,...
Wednesday
April 17, 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.
Wednesday
April 17, 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.
Wednesday
April 17, 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...
Wednesday
April 17, 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.
Wednesday
April 17, 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.
Wednesday
April 17, 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.
Thursday
April 18, 2024
5:00 pm -
8:00 pm
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Great Hall
The Library’s Thomas Jefferson Building and all exhibitions will be open for extended hours on Thursdays. Visitors are invited to enjoy happy hour drinks and food available for purchase in the Great Hall and the Jefferson Building’s beautiful architecture while immersing themselves in the Library’s exhibits, collections and programs.
Thursday
April 18, 2024
5:00 pm -
8:00 pm
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John Adams Building
Come celebrate the 85th anniversary of the Art Deco and Beaux-Arts inspired John Adams Building, now the home of the Science and Business Reading Room! The Library of Congress Adams Building first opened to the public in April 1939. Explore the building and reading room with tours from 5 p.m. -8 p.m. during Live at the Library!
Thursday
April 18, 2024
6:00 pm -
7:30 pm
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Pickford Theater (LM-302)
Join the Hispanic Reading Room and the Embassy of Portugal for a screening of "Cartas a uma ditadura" ("Letters to a Dictatorship"). This screening will be followed by a Q&A. Through the letters of Portuguese women to António de Oliveira Salazar, the country’s leader from 1932 to 1968, film investigates ideas of family, national identity, and liberty under one of twentieth-century Europe’s longest-lived authoritarian...
Thursday
April 18, 2024
7:30 pm -
10:00 pm
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Packard Campus Theater
A turn-of-the-20th-century love story. James Cagney looks back on loves sought; those gained and those lost. While not a musical, the film won the Academy Award for Best Scoring of a Musical Picture due to its use of over a dozen popular tunes from the early 1900’s. Raoul Walsh directed. Black and White, 97 minutes. Also a short subject.
Thursday
April 18, 2024
8:00 pm -
10:00 pm
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Coolidge Auditorium (LJ-G45A)
Celebrating 50 years of extraordinary performances, the Kronos Quartet will offer a program by a huge range of composers, from Sun Ra and Terry Riley to Steve Reich, Charlton Singleton and Laurie Anderson. Join for a post-concert NightCap conversation with the artists following the concert.
Thursday
April 18, 2024
10:00 am -
8:00 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,...
Thursday
April 18, 2024
10:00 am -
8:00 pm
EDT
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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.
Thursday
April 18, 2024
10:00 am -
8:00 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.
Thursday
April 18, 2024
10:00 am -
8:00 pm
EDT
Add to calendar
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...
Thursday
April 18, 2024
10:00 am -
8:00 pm
EDT
Add to calendar
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.
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