|| Current Exhibitions ||
Exploring the Early Americas
Examines indigenous cultures, the drama of the encounters between Native Americans and Europeans, and the changes caused by the meeting of the two worlds. It features selections from the Jay I. Kislak Collection.
Creating the United States
Offers insights into how the nation’s founding documents were forged and the role that imagination and vision played in the unprecedented creative act of forming a self–governing country.
Thomas Jefferson's Library
Reveals how books were vital to Thomas Jefferson’s education and well–being and how his personal library provided Jefferson with a broad knowledge of the contemporary and ancient worlds.
|| Explore Past Exhibitions ||
Benjamin Franklin: In His Own Words
The depth and breadth of Benjamin Franklin's public, professional, and scientific accomplishments through important documents, letters, books, broadsides, and cartoons.
Cartoon America
The Art Wood Collection of Cartoon and Caricature with more than 36,000 original cartoon drawings. A jewel among the Library's special collections, illuminating his astounding lifetime legacy of American creativity.
|| Library of Congress Experience ||
Discover our new exhibitions that bring the world’s largest collection of knowledge, culture, and creativity to life through dynamic displays of artifacts enhanced by interactivity. Examine rare and unique items, including the rough draft of the Declaration of Independence, the Gutenberg Bible, the 1507 Waldseemüller map that first named America, Thomas Jefferson’s recreated library, and the architectural wonders of the Thomas Jefferson Building.
Register for a One-Day Teacher Institute on Abraham Lincoln that uses the Library's exhibition With Malice Toward None: The Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Exhibition as its foundation.
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Last Updated: 01/16/2009