On dozens of myLOC stations deployed throughout the Library of Congress, visitors can learn about the architecture around them, play a treasure hunt–like game of discovery, and collect items on display for exploring in more detail online.
The symbolism, stories, and significance of the magnificent architecture within the Library of Congress are revealed in six large viewing stations uniquely positioned throughout the Great Hall.
The creative acts of our Founding Fathers are illuminated through enhanced electronic documents that reveal their thinking, their inspiration, and their iterative, collaborative process.
A sixteen-foot-wide display of shifting color dynamically reacts to individuals entering this exhibition, activating illuminating light that reveals the origins of American democracy in images and animations.
Two monumental Bibles mark the transition from pen to press: one of the greatest illuminated manuscripts and the most famous first printed book are paired for exploration in this insightful interactive experience.
Above the welcome desks an expansive, dynamic display introduces the activities and daily events awaiting arriving visitors within the Library of Congress.
A lively video with original music introduces Jefferson and his passion for books, his penchant for collecting them, and their relationship to the early development of the Library of Congress.
The organizational scheme for Thomas Jefferson’s library—the foundation of the Library of Congress—forms the interactive method for accessing every volume in the Jefferson collection and special tomes on display.
The Visitor Experience at the Library of Congress is the result of an unprecedented institutional initiative in which technology interconnects every interpretive offering on view in the library with a suite of tools for enhanced observation, personalization, and collection of objects for later retrieval online.
Two cinema-sized screens dramatically flank the room’s entrance, presenting larger-than-life previews of the treasures on display inside the Exploring the Early Americas exhibition.
Artifacts in a display case are liberated for discovery in this interactive station that illustrates the diverse writing systems for recording knowledge in the early Americas.
The significance of Conquest-era events depicted in a series of colossal paintings are revealed through interpretive installations before them.
Diverse visualizations of the universe from cultures spanning centuries and continents are brought together in these interactive portals into the vast collections at the Library of Congress.
To celebrate the donation of the Jay I. Kislak Collection, the Cultures and History of the Americas exhibition featured fifty highlights from the more than 4,000 rare books, maps, documents, paintings, prints, and artifacts that make up the Jay I. Kislak Collection at the Library of Congress.
The motion graphics in this overture video weave together the rare books, maps, documents, paintings, prints, and artifacts featured in the exhibition it introduces.
A touch screen installed next to a display case lets visitors explore an inscribed Mayan artifact, and transcribe and study its hieroglyphics.
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