PRIVATE Opening RECEPTION
You’re invited to an exclusive first look at the Library’s exhibition, Declarations: Printing a New Nation.
Friday, April 10
Central Library in Copley Square
7:00 p.m. – Cocktail Reception
8:00 p.m. – Exhibition Viewing
This private viewing is reserved for a small circle of the Boston Public Library’s closest friends and supporters and offers an unprecedented opportunity to encounter these historic documents up close.
Questions? Please contact Katie Miller at kmiller@bplfund.org.
Kindly Reply by March 30
About the Exhibition
April 11, 2026 – September 13, 2026
Leventhal Map & Education Center Gallery
Central Library in Copley Square
Featuring the Boston Public Library’s eight extremely rare copies of the Declaration of Independence, rare maps, and other materials, Declarations: Printing a New Nation invites audiences on a journey through the fledgling United States during the summer of 1776, focusing on “the Declaration as news.”
This exhibition encourages visitors to consider a moment when the ink was not yet dry on the documents that established American independence—a period during which the United States itself was something new.
This exhibition was created in partnership between the Boston Public Library
and the Norman B. Leventhal Map & Education Center.
Funding made possible by the Irene Haney Creative Enrichment Fund through the Boston Public Library Fund.
