On Display at the Library

Books That Shaped America
Marks a starting point—a way to spark a national conversation on books and their important in Americans' lives, and, indeed, in shaping our nation. This exhibition will preface the National Book Festival scheduled in September 2012.

Politics and the Dancing Body
Explores how American choreographers between World War I through the Cold War realized this vision, using dance to celebrate American culture, to voice social protest, and to raise social consciousness.

Books That Shaped America
June 25–September 29, 2012
Marks a starting point—a way to spark a national conversation on books and their important in Americans' lives, and, indeed, in shaping our nation. This exhibition will preface the National Book Festival scheduled in September 2012.

Caroline and Erwin Swann Memorial Exhibition
Ongoing exhibition, opened March 18, 2011
Introduces visitors to the fascinating world of caricatures, political cartoons, comics, animation art, graphic novels and illustrations. A permanent memorial exhibition features fifteen facsimiles of treasured cartoons from the Swann and other cartoon collections, which represent the broad range of holdings in the Library of Congress.

Danny Kaye and Sylvia Fine: Two Kids from Brooklyn
February 14–July 27, 2013
Explores the many talents of the powerful entertainment duo Danny Kaye (1911–1987) and Sylvia Fine (1913–1991), both raised in Brooklyn, New York.

Down to Earth: Herblock and Photographers Observe the Environment
September 22, 2012–March 23, 2013
Offers new perspectives with which to view our planet through Herblock's editorial cartoons paired with the work of photographers recording the environment.

Earth As Art 3: A Landsat Perspective
May 31, 2011–May 31, 2012
Showcases Landsat 7 images created by the United States Geological Survey. Since 1972, Landsat satellites have collected from space information about Earth’s continents and coastal areas.

Exploring the Early Americas
Ongoing exhibition, opened December 12, 2007.
Features selections from the Jay I. Kislak Collection to examine indigenous cultures, the drama of the encounters between Native Americans and Europeans, and the changes caused by the meeting of the two worlds.

The Gibson Girl’s America: Drawings by Charles Dana Gibson
March 30, 2013–August 17, 2013
Celebrates the work of Charles Dana Gibson and traces the art of the artist's career, highlighting the rise of the Gibson Girl from the 1890s through the first two decades of the twentieth century.

Herblock Gallery
Ongoing exhibition, opened March 18, 2011
Celebrates the work of editorial cartoonist Herbert L. Block—better known as "Herblock"—with an ongoing display of ten original drawings, to change every six months, drawn from the Library's extensive Herbert L. Block Collection.

Here to Stay: The Legacy of George and Ira Gershwin
Ongoing exhibition, opened December 11, 2008
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.

Hope for America: Performers, Politics and Pop Culture
Ongoing exhibition, opened June 11, 2010
Explore the interplay of politics and entertainment, focusing on the careers of Bob Hope and other entertainers who were involved in the political climate of their times.

Library of Congress Bible Collection
Ongoing exhibition, opened April 11, 2008
Explores the significance of the Giant Bible of Mainz and the Gutenberg Bible, as well as sixteen selected Bibles from the Library’s collections.

The Musical Worlds of Victor Herbert
August 16, 2012–January 26, 2013
Explores the work of Victor Herbert (1859–1924), Irish-American composer, conductor, and activist, whose best-known work is Babes in Toyland (1903).

Politics and the Dancing Body
February 16–July 28, 2012
Explores how American choreographers between World War I through the Cold War realized this vision, using dance to celebrate American culture, to voice social protest, and to raise social consciousness.

Thomas Jefferson’s Library
Ongoing exhibition, opened April 11, 2008
Draws on the Library’s Thomas Jefferson materials to examine the influence Jefferson’s thoughts and interests had on his own life, the American republic, and the world.

To Know Wisdom and Instruction": The Armenian Literary Tradition at the Library of Congress
April 19 – September 26, 2012
Commemorates the 500th anniversary of the first Armenian printing press and book at Venice in 1512 and the designation of Yerevan, Armenia, as UNESCO's Book Capital of the World 2012.

Words Like Sapphires: 100 Years of Hebraica at the Library of Congress, 1912–2012
October 25, 2012—April 13, 2013
The Library’s Hebraic Section is one of the world’s foremost centers for the study of Hebrew and Yiddish materials. Its beginnings can be traced to Jacob H. Schiff’s gift in 1912 of 10,000 items.