Events at the Library of Congress

Thursday September 28, 2023

Friday September 29, 2023

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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...