Wednesday
July 24, 2024
10:00 am -
5:00 pm
EDT
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Thomas Jefferson Building
Due to a special event, public areas of the Thomas Jefferson Building will be closed for the entire day. Reading rooms will be open to researchers, who must enter through the James Madison Memorial Building or the John Adams Building, then access the Jefferson building via tunnels.
Wednesday
July 24, 2024
8:00 pm -
8:30 pm
EDT
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Online Only
In partnership with Kansas City PBS and other local PBS stations, PBS Books Heather-Marie Montilla is joined by Authors Susan & Lexi Haas to discuss their book “The Year of the Buttered Cat” as the 2024 Library of Congress National Book Festival authors featured this week by PBS Books.
Thursday
July 25, 2024
12:00 pm -
1:00 pm
EDT
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Montpelier Room (LM-619)
Join us in celebrating the 175th anniversary of the U.S. Nautical Almanac Office (NAO) with presentations by Library specialists and the Chief of the Nautical Almanac Office Dr. Susan Stewart. The program will also include a curated display focusing on collection items related to the history of celestial navigation and the NAO.
Thursday
July 25, 2024
5:00 pm -
8:00 pm
EDT
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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.
Thursday
July 25, 2024
5:00 pm -
8:00 pm
EDT
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Great Hall - 2nd Floor (LJ-200-E)
Join us for a pop-up dance party featuring three feu DJs spinning deep cuts of French house, disco, pop, and EDM from 5 to 8 p.m. on the Mezzanine.
Thursday
July 25, 2024
8:00 pm -
10:00 pm
EDT
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Southeast Lawn
Join us for a special screening of the film, “"Love and Basketball" (2000) starring Sanaa Lathan.
Thursday
July 25, 2024
10:00 am -
8:00 pm
EDT
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Great Hall - 2nd Floor (LJ-200-E)
This small, curated display showcases some of the Library’s collections related to the modern Summer Olympic Games. It includes items documenting the 1924 Summer Olympics—the last time Paris hosted the games.
Thursday
July 25, 2024
10:00 am -
8:00 pm
EDT
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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...
Thursday
July 25, 2024
10:00 am -
8:00 pm
EDT
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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,...
Thursday
July 25, 2024
10:00 am -
8:00 pm
EDT
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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...
Thursday
July 25, 2024
10:00 am -
8:00 pm
EDT
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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.
Thursday
July 25, 2024
10:30 am -
11:30 am
EDT
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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
July 26, 2024
7:30 pm -
10:00 pm
EDT
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Packard Campus Theater
Charlie Chaplin writes, directs, produces, and stars in his final performance as the Tramp, a character beloved for his mischievous antics and signature walk. With the help of an orphaned girl (Paulette Goddard), he faces the challenges of a changing, industrialized world. This iconic part-talkie was one of the first 25 titles selected for the National Film Registry. Black & white, 87 min. (35mm)
Friday
July 26, 2024
10:00 am -
5:00 pm
EDT
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Great Hall - 2nd Floor (LJ-200-E)
This small, curated display showcases some of the Library’s collections related to the modern Summer Olympic Games. It includes items documenting the 1924 Summer Olympics—the last time Paris hosted the games.
Friday
July 26, 2024
10:00 am -
5:00 pm
EDT
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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...
Friday
July 26, 2024
10:00 am -
5:00 pm
EDT
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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,...
Friday
July 26, 2024
10:00 am -
5:00 pm
EDT
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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...
Friday
July 26, 2024
10:00 am -
5:00 pm
EDT
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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.
Friday
July 26, 2024
10:30 am -
11:30 am
EDT
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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
July 27, 2024
2:00 pm -
4:00 pm
EDT
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Packard Campus Theater
Dr. Julius Kelp is a nerdy klutz who creates an elixir that turns him into the suave playboy, Buddy Love. Unfortunately, Buddy can't control when he'll change back into Julius, and the personality split leads to hilarious side effects. The Library of Congress is the proud home of Jerry Lewis’s personal film collection, donated by the comedian himself. Color, 107 min. (Digital)
Saturday
July 27, 2024
7:30 pm -
10:00 pm
EDT
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Packard Campus Theater
In this 19th century, supernatural winter epic, a drunken applejack salesman must go from zero to hero and become North America's greatest fur trapper by defeating hundreds of beavers. Inspired by comedies from the 1920s and 1930s, including Modern Times, the film was hailed as “a marvel of slapstick invention that puts most big-screen comedies to shame.” Color, 108 min. (Digital)
Saturday
July 27, 2024
10:00 am -
5:00 pm
EDT
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Great Hall - 2nd Floor (LJ-200-E)
This small, curated display showcases some of the Library’s collections related to the modern Summer Olympic Games. It includes items documenting the 1924 Summer Olympics—the last time Paris hosted the games.
Saturday
July 27, 2024
10:00 am -
5:00 pm
EDT
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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...
Saturday
July 27, 2024
10:00 am -
5:00 pm
EDT
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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,...
Saturday
July 27, 2024
10:00 am -
5:00 pm
EDT
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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...
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