Events at the Library of Congress

Wednesday October 16, 2024

Thursday October 17, 2024

  • Event | special events

    Live! At The Library: Comedy Night

    Thursday
    October 17, 2024
    5:00 pm - 8:00 pm EDT     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.
  • Event | special events

    The Voice of Words: A Conversation with Claudio Pozzani

    Thursday
    October 17, 2024
    6:00 pm - 8:00 pm EDT     Hispanic Reading Room     Join us for an engaging conversation and poetry performance with Claudio Pozzani.
  • Event | exhibits and tours

    Celebrating 30 Years of the Small Press Expo

    Thursday
    October 17, 2024
    10:00 am - 8:00 pm EDT     Great Hall - 2nd Floor (LJ-200-E)     This small, curated display highlights material from the annual SPX comics and graphic arts festival.
  • Event | exhibits and tours

    Collecting Memories: Treasures from the Library of Congress

    Thursday
    October 17, 2024
    10:00 am - 8:00 pm EDT     Northwest Gallery     The Library of Congress preserves collective memories representing entire societies as well as intimate records of important moments and rites of passage in individual lives. The inaugural exhibition in the David M. Rubenstein Treasures Gallery draws from the Library’s rich Americana and international holdings in more than 450 languages and in forms created across time and continents. "Collecting Memories" marks the ways and the…
  • Event | exhibits and tours

    Here to Stay: The Legacy of George and Ira Gershwin

    Thursday
    October 17, 2024
    10:00 am - 8:00 pm EDT     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

    Hispanic Heritage: Oscar Hijuelos

    Thursday
    October 17, 2024
    10:00 am - 8:00 pm EDT     Great Hall - 2nd Floor (LJ-200-E)     This small, curated display features a variety of materials from the Library’s newly acquired personal papers collection of the New York based Cubano author Oscar Hijuelos (1951–2013).
  • Event | exhibits and tours

    "Not an Ostrich" and Other Images from America's Library

    Thursday
    October 17, 2024
    10:00 am - 8:00 pm EDT     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

    Thursday
    October 17, 2024
    10:00 am - 8:00 pm EDT     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

    Thursday
    October 17, 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.

Friday October 18, 2024

  • Event | film and video screenings

    The Shape of Water (Twentieth Century Fox, 2017)

    Friday
    October 18, 2024
    7:30 pm - 10:00 pm EDT     Packard Campus Theater     A mute cleaning lady working in a secret U.S. government lab in 1962 tries to help an otherworldly, aquatic creature escape from captivity. Color, 119 min. (Digital)
  • Event | concerts and performances

    Eddie Palmieri

    Friday
    October 18, 2024
    8:00 pm - 10:00 pm EDT     Coolidge Auditorium (LJ-G45A)     Experience legendary Latin jazz pianist Eddie Palmieri, a multi-Grammy winner renowned for his innovative blend of jazz and Afro-Caribbean rhythms.
  • Event | exhibits and tours

    Celebrating 30 Years of the Small Press Expo

    Friday
    October 18, 2024
    10:00 am - 5:00 pm EDT     Great Hall - 2nd Floor (LJ-200-E)     This small, curated display highlights material from the annual SPX comics and graphic arts festival.
  • Event | exhibits and tours

    Collecting Memories: Treasures from the Library of Congress

    Friday
    October 18, 2024
    10:00 am - 5:00 pm EDT     Northwest Gallery     The Library of Congress preserves collective memories representing entire societies as well as intimate records of important moments and rites of passage in individual lives. The inaugural exhibition in the David M. Rubenstein Treasures Gallery draws from the Library’s rich Americana and international holdings in more than 450 languages and in forms created across time and continents. "Collecting Memories" marks the ways and the…
  • Event | exhibits and tours

    Here to Stay: The Legacy of George and Ira Gershwin

    Friday
    October 18, 2024
    10:00 am - 5:00 pm EDT     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

    Hispanic Heritage: Oscar Hijuelos

    Friday
    October 18, 2024
    10:00 am - 5:00 pm EDT     Great Hall - 2nd Floor (LJ-200-E)     This small, curated display features a variety of materials from the Library’s newly acquired personal papers collection of the New York based Cubano author Oscar Hijuelos (1951–2013).
  • Event | exhibits and tours

    "Not an Ostrich" and Other Images from America's Library

    Friday
    October 18, 2024
    10:00 am - 5:00 pm EDT     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
    October 18, 2024
    10:00 am - 5:00 pm EDT     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.