Someone writes \”I think you\’ve had items about it before, but we\’ve now come to the end. Over 110,000 people visited the exhibition at the National Library of Australia which finally closed yesterday, but up until last day hundreds of people queued overnight in their sleeping bags to get their free entry tickets. Exhibits included original manuscripts from such people as Einstein, Dickens, Martin Luther King, Mozart, and rare items such as a Gutenberg Bible, ancient Oracle bones, a fragment of a Dead Sea Scroll – over 160 exhibits from around the world. The Library\’s staff volunteered their time enable the exhibition to stay open over 22 hours daily, and as the visitor in the story says, it was a surreal experience – visitors overjoyed to have seen the exhibition, even those coming in at 4am. Staff (I\’m one of them) are exhausted but elated! \”
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