Events at the Library of Congress

Friday September 29, 2023
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Event | lectures and symposia
The Intersection Between Texts and Textiles
Friday
September 29, 2023
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm EDT
Add to calendar LJ 119 Join us for a fascinating talk and Q&A about the intersection between texts and textiles by Sylvia Houghteling, Associate Professor of the History of Art at Bryn Mawr College.This event will be livestreamed on zoomgov.com External. -
Event | special events
NEA National Heritage Fellowship Award Public Ceremony
Friday
September 29, 2023
5:30 pm - 6:45 pm EDT
Add to calendar Coolidge Auditorium (LJ-G45A) Come join us as we honor the 2023 National Endowment for the Arts National Heritage Fellows and acknowledge the 2020-2022 honorees in a live ceremony in Coolidge Auditorium at the Library of Congress, September 29, 2023, 5:30pm-6:30pm. The NEA National Heritage Fellowships is the nation's highest honor in folk and traditional arts. Each year since 1982, the program recognizes recipients' artistic excellence, lifetime achievement,... -
Event | exhibits and tours
Creating the U.S.: The U.S. Constitution and the Bill of Rights
Friday
September 29, 2023
10:00 am - 5:00 pm EDT
Add to calendar Great Hall - 2nd Floor (LJ-200-E) America’s search for a plan of national government was a slow, difficult process. Compromise, cooperation, and creativity were required as the Americans moved from being colonials in a patriarchal monarchy to citizen-leaders in a representative republic of federal states. Creating the United States reproduces key documents from the Library’s collections that represent the late eighteenth-century process of crafting the U.S. Constitution and the Bill... -
Event | exhibits and tours
Here to Stay: The Legacy of George and Ira Gershwin
Friday
September 29, 2023
10:00 am - 5:00 pm EDT
Add to calendar 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,... -
Event | exhibits and tours
Join In: Voluntary Associations in America
Friday
September 29, 2023
10:00 am - 5:00 pm EDT
Add to calendar 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. -
Event | exhibits and tours
"Not an Ostrich" and Other Images from America's Library
Friday
September 29, 2023
10:00 am - 5:00 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... -
Event | exhibits and tours
Thomas Jefferson's Library
Friday
September 29, 2023
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. -
Event | exhibits and tours
Experience the Main Reading Room
Friday
September 29, 2023
10:30 am - 11:30 am EDT
Add to calendar 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. -
Event | exhibits and tours
The Intersection Between Texts and Textiles across Africa, the Middle East, and Asia
Friday
September 29, 2023
11:00 am - 3:30 pm EDT
Add to calendar Mahogany Row A (LJ-113) This one-day display includes cloth manuscript wraps and covers from Southeast Asia and the Middle East, Hmong embroidered cloth story maps, fabric swatch books from Japan, and manuscripts depicting the labor of textile production.
Saturday September 30, 2023
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Event | exhibits and tours
Creating the U.S.: The U.S. Constitution and the Bill of Rights
Saturday
September 30, 2023
10:00 am - 5:00 pm EDT
Add to calendar Great Hall - 2nd Floor (LJ-200-E) America’s search for a plan of national government was a slow, difficult process. Compromise, cooperation, and creativity were required as the Americans moved from being colonials in a patriarchal monarchy to citizen-leaders in a representative republic of federal states. Creating the United States reproduces key documents from the Library’s collections that represent the late eighteenth-century process of crafting the U.S. Constitution and the Bill... -
Event | exhibits and tours
Here to Stay: The Legacy of George and Ira Gershwin
Saturday
September 30, 2023
10:00 am - 5:00 pm EDT
Add to calendar 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,... -
Event | exhibits and tours
Join In: Voluntary Associations in America
Saturday
September 30, 2023
10:00 am - 5:00 pm EDT
Add to calendar 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. -
Event | exhibits and tours
"Not an Ostrich" and Other Images from America's Library
Saturday
September 30, 2023
10:00 am - 5:00 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... -
Event | exhibits and tours
Thomas Jefferson's Library
Saturday
September 30, 2023
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 October 3, 2023
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Event | exhibits and tours
Creating the U.S.: The U.S. Constitution and the Bill of Rights
Tuesday
October 3, 2023
10:00 am - 5:00 pm EDT
Add to calendar Great Hall - 2nd Floor (LJ-200-E) America’s search for a plan of national government was a slow, difficult process. Compromise, cooperation, and creativity were required as the Americans moved from being colonials in a patriarchal monarchy to citizen-leaders in a representative republic of federal states. Creating the United States reproduces key documents from the Library’s collections that represent the late eighteenth-century process of crafting the U.S. Constitution and the Bill... -
Event | exhibits and tours
Here to Stay: The Legacy of George and Ira Gershwin
Tuesday
October 3, 2023
10:00 am - 5:00 pm EDT
Add to calendar 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,... -
Event | exhibits and tours
Join In: Voluntary Associations in America
Tuesday
October 3, 2023
10:00 am - 5:00 pm EDT
Add to calendar 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. -
Event | exhibits and tours
"Not an Ostrich" and Other Images from America's Library
Tuesday
October 3, 2023
10:00 am - 5:00 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... -
Event | exhibits and tours
Thomas Jefferson's Library
Tuesday
October 3, 2023
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. -
Event | exhibits and tours
Experience the Main Reading Room
Tuesday
October 3, 2023
10:30 am - 11:30 am EDT
Add to calendar 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 October 4, 2023
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Event | exhibits and tours
Creating the U.S.: The U.S. Constitution and the Bill of Rights
Wednesday
October 4, 2023
10:00 am - 5:00 pm EDT
Add to calendar Great Hall - 2nd Floor (LJ-200-E) America’s search for a plan of national government was a slow, difficult process. Compromise, cooperation, and creativity were required as the Americans moved from being colonials in a patriarchal monarchy to citizen-leaders in a representative republic of federal states. Creating the United States reproduces key documents from the Library’s collections that represent the late eighteenth-century process of crafting the U.S. Constitution and the Bill... -
Event | exhibits and tours
Here to Stay: The Legacy of George and Ira Gershwin
Wednesday
October 4, 2023
10:00 am - 5:00 pm EDT
Add to calendar 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,... -
Event | exhibits and tours
Join In: Voluntary Associations in America
Wednesday
October 4, 2023
10:00 am - 5:00 pm EDT
Add to calendar 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. -
Event | exhibits and tours
"Not an Ostrich" and Other Images from America's Library
Wednesday
October 4, 2023
10:00 am - 5:00 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... -
Event | exhibits and tours
Thomas Jefferson's Library
Wednesday
October 4, 2023
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.