Event Exhibits and Tours Here to Stay: The Legacy of George and Ira Gershwin

Date and Location

  • When: Monday, January 1, 2018

    8:30 am - 4:30 pm EDT

  • Where: Thomas Jefferson Building - George and Ira Gershwin Room

    10 1st Street SE, Washington, DC 20540

Request ADA accommodations five business days in advance at (202) 707-6362 or ADA@loc.gov.

Experience the glamour and sophistication of the 1920s and 1930s in this permanent tribute to the brothers 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, personal and business correspondence, photographs, paintings, and drawings, all from the Gershwin Collection in the Music Division of the Library of Congress, the world's preeminent resource for materials about the Gershwins.