Events at the Library of Congress

Wednesday September 27, 2023

Thursday September 28, 2023

  • Event | special events

    Live! at the Library

    Thursday
    September 28, 2023
    5:00 pm - 8:00 pm EDT
    Add to calendar     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 | courses and workshops

    Live! at the Library: Danzón Class with Corazón Folklórico

    Thursday
    September 28, 2023
    6:00 pm - 7:30 pm EDT
    Add to calendar     Great Hall     Join the Library as we continue our celebration of Hispanic Heritage Month with a Danzón class taught by Professor Manuel Cuellar (George Washington University) and Paulette Chavira, both members of the DC-based Corazón Folklórico dance group.
  • Event | special events

    Live! at the Library: A Conversation with Bill Moyers and Judy Woodruff

    Thursday
    September 28, 2023
    7:00 pm - 8:30 pm EDT
    Add to calendar     Coolidge Auditorium (LJ-G45A)     Veteran journalists Bill Moyers and Judy Woodruff, chair of the executive advisory council of the American Archive of Public Broadcasting, will be at the Library of Congress for a conversation and screening to mark the induction of five decades of Moyers’ programs in the archive.
  • Event | exhibits and tours

    Creating the U.S.: The U.S. Constitution and the Bill of Rights

    Thursday
    September 28, 2023
    10:00 am - 8:00 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

    Thursday
    September 28, 2023
    10:00 am - 8:00 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

    Thursday
    September 28, 2023
    10:00 am - 8:00 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

    Thursday
    September 28, 2023
    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...
  • Event | exhibits and tours

    Thomas Jefferson's Library

    Thursday
    September 28, 2023
    10:00 am - 8:00 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

    Thursday
    September 28, 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.

Friday September 29, 2023

  • 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.
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    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

  • 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...