Armchair Travel via the Library of Congress Exhibitions

If you don't have the time or the money to travel this summer, consider experiencing some armchair travel via the Library of Congress Exhibitions. Located in Washington, DC, the Library of Congress is the world's largest library with more than 130 million items on 530 miles of bookshelves. The Library of Congress creates exhibits which are displayed in Washington, DC and which also travel. Online versions of these exhibits are created and can be viewed at the Library of Congress Exhibitions web page. Here is a sampling of the online exhibits:

• The Dream of Flight
• The Floating World of Ukiyo-e: Shadows, Dreams, and Substance
  
• A Heavenly Craft: The Woodcut in Early Printed Books
  
• Rivers, Edens, Empires: Lewis & Clark and the Revealing of America
  
• Scrolls from the Dead Sea: The Ancient Library of Qumran and Modern Scholarship
  
• The Wizard of Oz: An American Fairy Tale
  
• Women Come to the Front: Journalists, Photographers, and Broadcasters During WWII