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Tuesday July 22, 2025

  • Event | exhibits and tours Collecting Memories: Treasures from the Library of Congress
    • Tuesday, July 22, 2025 10:00 am - 5:00 pm EDT
    • Thomas Jefferson Building, 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.
  • Event | exhibits and tours Herblock Looks at 1975: Fifty Years Ago in Editorial Cartoons
    • Tuesday, July 22, 2025 10:00 am - 5:00 pm EDT
    • Thomas Jefferson Building, Great Hall - 2nd Floor (LJ-200-E)
    Herbert L. Block (1909–2001), known to the world as Herblock, was one of the most influential political commentators and editorial cartoonists in American history. This display features a selection of his work from 1975.
  • Event | exhibits and tours Here to Stay: The Legacy of George and Ira Gershwin
    • Tuesday, July 22, 2025 10:00 am - 5:00 pm EDT
    • Thomas Jefferson Building, 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.
  • Event | exhibits and tours A National Treasure: The Library of Congress
    • Tuesday, July 22, 2025 10:00 am - 5:00 pm EDT
    • Thomas Jefferson Building, Southwest Gallery
    This small, curated display celebrates the history of the Thomas Jefferson Building, which opened to the public on November 1, 1897. Designed in an Italian Renaissance style, this building features the works of more than 40 American sculptors and painters. It was also the first building in Washington, D.C., designed with electric lighting. The state-of-the-art facility was built to accommodate the Library of Congress’s…
  • Event | exhibits and tours Showstoppers: American Creators from Broadway to Hollywood
    • Tuesday, July 22, 2025 10:00 am - 5:00 pm EDT
    • Thomas Jefferson Building, Great Hall - 2nd Floor (LJ-200-E)
    The Library of Congress holds more than 28 million items that document music, theater, and dance in the United States and beyond. This small, curated display features items from the collection showing how American songwriters, composers, dancers, choreographers, actors and directors have shaped popular culture.
  • Event | exhibits and tours Thomas Jefferson’s Library
    • Tuesday, July 22, 2025 10:00 am - 5:00 pm EDT
    • Thomas Jefferson Building, Southeast 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 The Two Georges: Parallel Lives in an Age of Revolution
    • Tuesday, July 22, 2025 10:00 am - 5:00 pm EDT
    • Thomas Jefferson Building, Southwest Gallery
    Our understanding of George Washington and King George III of Britain is clouded by myths that have accumulated over centuries. This exhibition explores the lives and legacies of the two adversaries during America’s war for independence. The Library of Congress brings their papers together for the first time to reveal the real men behind the myths.

Wednesday July 23, 2025

  • Event | exhibits and tours Collecting Memories: Treasures from the Library of Congress
    • Wednesday, July 23, 2025 10:00 am - 5:00 pm EDT
    • Thomas Jefferson Building, 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.
  • Event | exhibits and tours Herblock Looks at 1975: Fifty Years Ago in Editorial Cartoons
    • Wednesday, July 23, 2025 10:00 am - 5:00 pm EDT
    • Thomas Jefferson Building, Great Hall - 2nd Floor (LJ-200-E)
    Herbert L. Block (1909–2001), known to the world as Herblock, was one of the most influential political commentators and editorial cartoonists in American history. This display features a selection of his work from 1975.
  • Event | exhibits and tours Here to Stay: The Legacy of George and Ira Gershwin
    • Wednesday, July 23, 2025 10:00 am - 5:00 pm EDT
    • Thomas Jefferson Building, 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.
  • Event | exhibits and tours A National Treasure: The Library of Congress
    • Wednesday, July 23, 2025 10:00 am - 5:00 pm EDT
    • Thomas Jefferson Building, Southwest Gallery
    This small, curated display celebrates the history of the Thomas Jefferson Building, which opened to the public on November 1, 1897. Designed in an Italian Renaissance style, this building features the works of more than 40 American sculptors and painters. It was also the first building in Washington, D.C., designed with electric lighting. The state-of-the-art facility was built to accommodate the Library of Congress’s…
  • Event | exhibits and tours Showstoppers: American Creators from Broadway to Hollywood
    • Wednesday, July 23, 2025 10:00 am - 5:00 pm EDT
    • Thomas Jefferson Building, Great Hall - 2nd Floor (LJ-200-E)
    The Library of Congress holds more than 28 million items that document music, theater, and dance in the United States and beyond. This small, curated display features items from the collection showing how American songwriters, composers, dancers, choreographers, actors and directors have shaped popular culture.
  • Event | exhibits and tours Thomas Jefferson’s Library
    • Wednesday, July 23, 2025 10:00 am - 5:00 pm EDT
    • Thomas Jefferson Building, Southeast 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 The Two Georges: Parallel Lives in an Age of Revolution
    • Wednesday, July 23, 2025 10:00 am - 5:00 pm EDT
    • Thomas Jefferson Building, Southwest Gallery
    Our understanding of George Washington and King George III of Britain is clouded by myths that have accumulated over centuries. This exhibition explores the lives and legacies of the two adversaries during America’s war for independence. The Library of Congress brings their papers together for the first time to reveal the real men behind the myths.

Thursday July 24, 2025

  • Event | special events Live! At The Library
    • Thursday, July 24, 2025 5:00 pm - 8:00 pm EDT
    • Thomas Jefferson Building, 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 | lectures and symposia Live! At the Library: Ask the Ethicist: A Live Session with Kwame Anthony Appiah
    • Thursday, July 24, 2025 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm EDT
    • Thomas Jefferson Building, Coolidge Auditorium (LJ-G45A)
    Join us for a lively and thought-provoking evening with the 2024 recipient of the John W. Kluge Prize for Achievement in the Study of Humanity and New York Times columnist behind “The Ethicist.”
  • Event | film and video screenings Summer Movies on the Lawn: “Spy Kids” (2001)
    • Thursday, July 24, 2025 8:00 pm - 10:00 pm EDT
    • Thomas Jefferson Building, Southeast Lawn
    Join us for a screening of “Spy Kids” (2001) starring Antonio Banderas as Gregorio Cortez.
  • Event | exhibits and tours Collecting Memories: Treasures from the Library of Congress
    • Thursday, July 24, 2025 10:00 am - 8:00 pm EDT
    • Thomas Jefferson Building, 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.
  • Event | exhibits and tours Herblock Looks at 1975: Fifty Years Ago in Editorial Cartoons
    • Thursday, July 24, 2025 10:00 am - 8:00 pm EDT
    • Thomas Jefferson Building, Great Hall - 2nd Floor (LJ-200-E)
    Herbert L. Block (1909–2001), known to the world as Herblock, was one of the most influential political commentators and editorial cartoonists in American history. This display features a selection of his work from 1975.
  • Event | exhibits and tours Here to Stay: The Legacy of George and Ira Gershwin
    • Thursday, July 24, 2025 10:00 am - 8:00 pm EDT
    • Thomas Jefferson Building, 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.
  • Event | exhibits and tours A National Treasure: The Library of Congress
    • Thursday, July 24, 2025 10:00 am - 8:00 pm EDT
    • Thomas Jefferson Building, Southwest Gallery
    This small, curated display celebrates the history of the Thomas Jefferson Building, which opened to the public on November 1, 1897. Designed in an Italian Renaissance style, this building features the works of more than 40 American sculptors and painters. It was also the first building in Washington, D.C., designed with electric lighting. The state-of-the-art facility was built to accommodate the Library of Congress’s…
  • Event | exhibits and tours Showstoppers: American Creators from Broadway to Hollywood
    • Thursday, July 24, 2025 10:00 am - 8:00 pm EDT
    • Thomas Jefferson Building, Great Hall - 2nd Floor (LJ-200-E)
    The Library of Congress holds more than 28 million items that document music, theater, and dance in the United States and beyond. This small, curated display features items from the collection showing how American songwriters, composers, dancers, choreographers, actors and directors have shaped popular culture.
  • Event | exhibits and tours Thomas Jefferson’s Library
    • Thursday, July 24, 2025 10:00 am - 8:00 pm EDT
    • Thomas Jefferson Building, Southeast 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 The Two Georges: Parallel Lives in an Age of Revolution
    • Thursday, July 24, 2025 10:00 am - 8:00 pm EDT
    • Thomas Jefferson Building, Southwest Gallery
    Our understanding of George Washington and King George III of Britain is clouded by myths that have accumulated over centuries. This exhibition explores the lives and legacies of the two adversaries during America’s war for independence. The Library of Congress brings their papers together for the first time to reveal the real men behind the myths.

Friday July 25, 2025

  • Event | film and video screenings The Sixth Sense (1999)
    • Friday, July 25, 2025 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm EDT
    • Culpeper, VA: National Audio-Visual Conservation Center, Packard Campus Theater
    A child psychologist (Bruce Willis) comes to the aid of a tormented boy (Haley Joel Osment) who has visions of the dead. As the sympathetic doctor digs deeper into the child's strange powers, it leads to unexpected consequences for both of them. Written and directed by M. Night Shyamalan. Color, 107 min. (Film)