LIBRARY REIMAGINED: A Tour in Dance 

Please join us for a day of Festivities  inside, outside, and under the loggia of the renovated MLK Library. At 10 am (and again at 1:45 pm), be on hand to see the launch of LIBRARY REIMAGINED: A Tour in Dance brought to you by the time and talent of MLK Library...

StoryWalk at MLK Library

Enjoy a story and take a walk with us as MLK Library welcomes summer early with the Library’s first StoryWalk. The first StoryWalk book is “I Have a Dream” written by Martin Luther King, Jr., paintings by Kadir Nelson.A StoryWalk® is a deconstructed picture book with...

MLK Library Friends Fund “Story Walk”

MLK Library Friends Fund “Story Walk” Outside Renovated Memorial Library As we await the full re-opening of the renovated MLK Library, interested kids and their grownups can go for a “story walk” under the library’s front loggia. A StoryWalk is a...

MLK Renovation Tour

2020 Virtual Tour It’s finally come to pass. After a two decades long struggle to retain and renovate the Mies designed Martin Luther King Jr Memorial Library, a renewed building is ready to be seen – though it will be virtually for the most part. Read about the...

MLK Renovations begin 2017

The Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library, D.C.’s central library, closed March 4, 2017 for a three-year major modernization. To learn more about the project, please visit the MLK Future page https://www.dclibrary.org/mlkfuture.  Interim Library Services Interim...