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\n WASHINGTON (AP) \u2014 The Library of Congress is unveiling an eclectic new exhibit drawing on the institution\u2019s vast historical archives and designed to make the library a more popular and accessible destination for visitors and tourists.\u201cCollecting Memories\u201d \u2014 which opens to the public on June 13 \u2014 is an intensely curated exhibit that brings together items as varied as ancient Hebrew religious texts, the contents of President Abraham Lincoln\u2019s pockets when he was assassinated in 1865, the first sketches of Spider-Man and videos of Carlos Santana in concert.\u201cThese items are an expression of our collective history,\u201d said Carla Hayden, the official librarian of Congress. \u201cWe want people to see themselves in our exhibit.\u201dThe new exhibit is part of a campaign to make the Library of Congress more attractive to everyday tourists and school groups. David Rubenstein, the prominent local philanthropist who donated $10 million to the initiative, said the goal was to make the Library of Congress a regular part of tourist itineraries along with the monuments and various museums.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou usually don\u2019t go to the Library of Congress because you don\u2019t know that the Library of Congress is more than just a library,\u201d Rubinstein said. <\/p>\n
Housed in the Thomas Jefferson Building, next door to the Supreme Court and across the street from the Capitol, the dimly lit exhibition hall bursts with images and antiquities. Slide shows play on the walls, and glass cases display vivid tapestries, ancient texts, photographs and historical curiosities like former President James Madison\u2019s crystal flute and Lincoln\u2019s pocketknife and wallet \u2014 including a Confederate $5 bill. The life story of Omar Ibn Said, an African man abducted into American slavery, is told through his own autobiography, written in Arabic.<\/p>\n
David Mandel, the library\u2019s director of exhibits, said the goal was to leave visitors feeling \u201csurrounded and immersed in the library\u2019s collections.\u201d <\/p>\n
The exhibit will run for about 18 months, through the end of 2025. Some of the more delicate items on display will rotate out at six-month intervals to protect them from exposure. The 127 items on display are all drawn from the Library of Congress\u2019 own internal collections, which number more than 178 million pieces.At times, the selections seem almost random, but curators have embedded small connections and juxtapositions throughout \u2014 something Mandel described as the \u201csynergies between the stories.\u201dAn illustrated 15th-century Hebrew text sits next to a colorful Ethiopian religious book written in Amharic. Formerly top-secret photographs of the original Trinity test nuclear explosion are positioned next to a handwritten report by a Japanese survivor of the Hiroshima bombing describing the ordeal and aftermath.A section focusing on refugee experiences combines photos of Syrian refugees arriving in Michigan in 2015 with a 1949 \u201caffidavit of identity\u201d belonging to famed Jewish historian and philosopher Hannah Arendt, who at the time was a German refugee in America and classified as a stateless person.<\/p>\n
A multiscreen video wall plays a shifting mix of old videos ranging from home movies of everyday 1950s families to footage of Charlie Chaplin and clips of the Rockettes performing. Ancient Sumerian Cuneiform writing tablets \u2014 possibly the earliest examples of written language \u2014 share space with clips of D.C. native Duke Ellington performing while a Black dance troupe performs an acrobatic Lindy Hop.\u201cThe stories told by these items still inspire and amaze, decades or even centuries after they were created,\u201d Hayden said.Visitors to the new exhibit must secure timed-entry passes, which are available for free at loc.gov\/visit.<\/p>\n
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