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A gallery featuring photography by the Creative Camera Club.
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The Undesign the Redline project unearths the deep and systemic history of structural racism and inequality in the United States. This interactive exhibit explores policies like Redlining, their implications for today, and what we can do to undesign them.
The exhibit was created by social impact design studio designing the WE and has been invited to dozens of cities across the country. A local advisory group has helped to produce local history and stories about Redlining in Lexington.

A local history exhibit commemorating 250Lex from March 21 to July 13 at the Central Library Gallery, 140 East Main Street. The exhibit includes items from the library’s own Kentucky Room collection as well as loans from the Lexington History Museum, Keeneland, the University of Kentucky, and local residents.
For more information about Shannon Lewis you can visit the artist website at https://www.bluegrassbrooms.com/.
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Fayette County, Kentucky, has changed enormously since it was created in 1792. This collection contains government documents for the city of Lexington, for Fayette County, and for the merged Lexington-Fayette Urban County Government, as well as funeral notices, club directories, scrapbooks, image collections and a history of Lexington Public Library.
Celebrate Lexington, Kentucky’s 250th anniversary all year long. Join us for programs, galleries, podcasts, and more highlighting our city’s history, heritage, and legacy.
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Music by Anthony Philip Heinrich, Lexington's Own "Beethoven of America." Featuring the Transylvania University Chamber Orchestra and Eastern Kentucky University School of Music. Part of 250Lex and the Central Library Gallery's exhibit, "Collected Memory: Items and Artifacts from 250 Years of Lexington History."

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Friday: 9:30am-6:00pm
Saturday: 9:30am-5:00pm
Sunday: 1:00pm-5:00pm
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Stories of Lexington's history told through the Kentucky Room archives.