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Stop 6 of 12 on The Obama Library Tour
The Library Branch and the Reading Garden
Jackson Park, Chicago
A Preview
"The low building with the courtyard. In the reading garden there's a bronze sculpture of a bird coming up off an open book, and it's called Book Bird. That's a Richard Hunt. If you don't know the name, you know the work. Hunt put public sculpture all over this city for sixty years. In nineteen seventy-one he became the first Black sculptor to get a solo retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art."
Hear the full story in the app — narrated and timed to play right where you're standing.
The Reveal
This stop is part of the tour’s larger story. An optional reveal at the end lets you revisit which details stayed perfectly honest and which got a little extra help.
Tour Stops
Follow the full The Obama Library Tour route.
- 1 Introduction
- 2 The Tower from Stony Island Avenue
- 3 John Lewis Plaza
- 4 The Southwest Corner — The Letters
- 5 The North Face — Wrapping the Pineapple
- 6 The Library Branch and the Reading Garden
- 7 Home Court
- 8 The Ann Dunham Water Terrace
- 9 The Women's Garden
- 10 The Great Lawn and the Road That Isn't There
- 11 The Statue of the Republic
- 12 The Reveal
Hear the full story at The Library Branch and the Reading Garden
This is just one of 12 stops on the The Obama Library Tour tour. Download the app, put in your headphones, and experience it for real.
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