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Library of Congress traveling exhibit coming to Willmar for two-day stint this week

WILLMAR -- The Library of Congress will be bringing its 18-wheeler, traveling exhibition to Willmar this week. The exhibit will be open from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Friday and 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday at the Willmar Fire Station. The exhibit is free t...

WILLMAR -- The Library of Congress will be bringing its 18-wheeler, traveling exhibition to Willmar this week.

The exhibit will be open from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Friday and 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday at the Willmar Fire Station.

The exhibit is free to the public.

The "Gateway to Knowledge" exhibition will bring high-quality facsimiles of many of the Library's top treasures and information about the millions of resources in the Library's unparalleled collections.

The trailer expands to three times its road width.

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The exhibition will outline the history of the Library, including Thomas Jefferson's role in re-establishing the Library when he provided his personal book collection to the nation after the burning of the U.S. Capitol in 1814.

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