If you’re a regular reader of this blog, you may know that the Informal Learning Office (ILO) hosts monthly Family Days to provide families with engaging activities featuring Library collections. Our next program is the biggest yet; the June 15th Family Day will be (literally) an all-singing, all-dancing, all-star event!
The Library’s beautiful Jefferson Building will be the backdrop for a full day of family activities and performances celebrating the opening of the new David M. Rubenstein Treasures Gallery. The first exhibition in the space, Collecting Memories, opens on June 13th. It features a wide range of items from the Library’s collections that explore how we preserve memory, assemble knowledge, and recall events. These include Civil War portrait photographs, architecture student Maya Lin’s designs for the Vietnam War Memorial, and the original drawings for Spider-Man. There are many other fascinating treasures in the form of maps, moving images and sound recordings, personal narratives and much else besides. You can find out more in the May-June 2024 issue of the Library of Congress Magazine, and in this description of the new gallery.
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