Exhibits
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The National Archives Museum features several galleries with rotating and permanent displays, including the Rotunda, The Lawrence O’Brien Gallery, and the David M. Rubenstein Gallery. Exhibits are carefully curated by museum staff to explore our past through documents, photographs, artifacts, maps, video and audio files, and more.Â
The Charters of Freedom
Encounter the original founding documents of the United States in the Rotunda for the Charters of Freedom, the permanent home of the Declaration of Independence, Constitution of the United States, and Bill of Rights. These three documents, known collectively as the Charters of Freedom, are instrumental to the founding and philosophy of the United States.
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Power and Light
The Power & Light exhibition features more than 200 of Russell LeeĘĽs photographs of coal miners and their families in their homes, mines, and communities. Visitors will experience large-scale prints, projections, and digital interactives. Although LeeĘĽs earlier images of Depression-era Americans are well-known, his 1946 coal survey images have enjoyed little public exposure…
Records of Rights
In “Records of Rights,” explore how generations of Americans sought to fulfill the promise of the founding documents. The David M. Rubenstein Gallery exhibition showcases original and facsimile National Archives documents and uses an innovative 17-foot-long touch-screen interactive table to illustrate how Americans have debated about and fought for rights like free speech, religion, and equality.
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