Events at the Library of Congress
Friday December 8, 2023
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Event | film and video screeningsHome Alone (20th Century-Fox, 1990)
Friday
December 8, 2023
7:30 pm - 9:00 pm EST
Add to calendar Packard Campus Theater The McCallisters go on vacation to Paris but leave Kevin home alone. The way Kevin (Macaulay Culkin) was behaving makes one think it may not really have been an accident. While the family spends Christmas trying to get back home, two burglars come to wish they had never met Kevin… at home, alone, or ever. John Hughs wrote and directed. -
Event | exhibits and tours
Christmas Through History
Friday
December 8, 2023
10:00 am - 5:00 pm EST
Add to calendar Great Hall - 2nd Floor (LJ-200-E) This small, curated display features some of the earliest depictions of Christmas published in the United States. Explore these selections as you celebrate the season. -
Event | exhibits and tours
DC Home Rule at Fifty
Friday
December 8, 2023
10:00 am - 5:00 pm EST
Add to calendar Great Hall - 2nd Floor (LJ-200-E) This small, curated display commemorates the day, 50 years ago on December 24, 1973, when the District of Columbia Home Rule Act granted DC residents limited self-government for the first time in nearly a century. -
Event | exhibits and toursHere to Stay: The Legacy of George and Ira Gershwin
Friday
December 8, 2023
10:00 am - 5:00 pm EST
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 toursJoin In: Voluntary Associations in America
Friday
December 8, 2023
10:00 am - 5:00 pm EST
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
December 8, 2023
10:00 am - 5:00 pm EST
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 toursThomas Jefferson's Library
Friday
December 8, 2023
10:00 am - 5:00 pm EST
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 toursExperience the Main Reading Room
Friday
December 8, 2023
10:30 am - 11:30 am EST
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.
Saturday December 9, 2023
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Event | exhibits and tours
Christmas Through History
Saturday
December 9, 2023
10:00 am - 5:00 pm EST
Add to calendar Great Hall - 2nd Floor (LJ-200-E) This small, curated display features some of the earliest depictions of Christmas published in the United States. Explore these selections as you celebrate the season. -
Event | exhibits and tours
DC Home Rule at Fifty
Saturday
December 9, 2023
10:00 am - 5:00 pm EST
Add to calendar Great Hall - 2nd Floor (LJ-200-E) This small, curated display commemorates the day, 50 years ago on December 24, 1973, when the District of Columbia Home Rule Act granted DC residents limited self-government for the first time in nearly a century. -
Event | exhibits and tours
Here to Stay: The Legacy of George and Ira Gershwin
Saturday
December 9, 2023
10:00 am - 5:00 pm EST
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
December 9, 2023
10:00 am - 5:00 pm EST
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
December 9, 2023
10:00 am - 5:00 pm EST
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
December 9, 2023
10:00 am - 5:00 pm EST
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.
Monday December 11, 2023
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Event | courses and workshops
Confluence of Cultures: Lithographed Book Design in 19th Century Iran, India, and Central Asia,
Monday
December 11, 2023
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm EST
Add to calendar LJ 119 Join the John W. Kluge Center and the Library's African and Middle Eastern Division for an event with Kluge Fellow Ali Boozari, who is in residence studying Iranian and Indian lithographed books in the Library's collections. Boozari will lead a panel discussion on the topic in conjunction with a display of materials from the collections.This event will be livestreamed on zoomgov.com External.
Tuesday December 12, 2023
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Event | courses and workshops
Introduction to Geospatial Resources
Tuesday
December 12, 2023
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm EST
Add to calendar Online Only Join us for a virtual orientation that aims to provide an overview of the geospatial resources of the Geography & Map Division, including an introduction to geographic information systems (GIS), spatial data formats, and the geospatial activities of the Division. This session will be followed by a Q&A session with GIS specialists. -
Event | exhibits and tours
Christmas Through History
Tuesday
December 12, 2023
10:00 am - 5:00 pm EST
Add to calendar Great Hall - 2nd Floor (LJ-200-E) This small, curated display features some of the earliest depictions of Christmas published in the United States. Explore these selections as you celebrate the season. -
Event | exhibits and tours
DC Home Rule at Fifty
Tuesday
December 12, 2023
10:00 am - 5:00 pm EST
Add to calendar Great Hall - 2nd Floor (LJ-200-E) This small, curated display commemorates the day, 50 years ago on December 24, 1973, when the District of Columbia Home Rule Act granted DC residents limited self-government for the first time in nearly a century. -
Event | exhibits and tours
Here to Stay: The Legacy of George and Ira Gershwin
Tuesday
December 12, 2023
10:00 am - 5:00 pm EST
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
December 12, 2023
10:00 am - 5:00 pm EST
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
December 12, 2023
10:00 am - 5:00 pm EST
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
December 12, 2023
10:00 am - 5:00 pm EST
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
December 12, 2023
10:30 am - 11:30 am EST
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 December 13, 2023
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Event | concerts and performances2023 American Folklife Center Mummers Holiday Play in the Great Hall
Wednesday
December 13, 2023
3:15 pm - 3:30 pm EST
Add to calendar Great Hall - 1st Floor (LJ-100) The American Folklife Center Mummers will present the annual mummers’ play in the Great Hall at 3:15 p.m. on December 13. This year’s play is called “Artificial Intelligence Meets Natural Stupidity: A Literary Ball Mumming.” When Artificial Intelligence tries to make writers obsolete, can St. George Eliot, Sherlock Holmes and Enola Holmes save the day? Find out in this play set at the North... -
Event | exhibits and tours
Christmas Through History
Wednesday
December 13, 2023
10:00 am - 5:00 pm EST
Add to calendar Great Hall - 2nd Floor (LJ-200-E) This small, curated display features some of the earliest depictions of Christmas published in the United States. Explore these selections as you celebrate the season.