From a press release:
“The Institute for Primary Facts (IPF) today announced that The Donald J. Trump and Jeffrey Epstein Memorial Reading Room is officially moving to the nation’s capital in time for President Trump’s birthday.
Running between June 9-12, 2026, the first-of-its kind physical library will take over a space twice as large as the original New York location in D.C.’s Chinatown neighborhood near the White House and Department of Justice (DOJ). The installation will house all 3.5 million pages of unsealed court records and investigative files released by the DOJ, printed and bound into more than 3,400 individual volumes weighing more than 17,000 pounds.
The D.C. Reading Room is the next stop on what the organizers hope will become a national tour following the New York Reading Room’s viral success. Nearly 10,000 New Yorkers walked through 3,437 volumes of the Epstein files during the exhibit’s two-week run. The installation has been seen by over 85 million people online. The momentum ahead of the D.C. launch also follows a historic, uninterrupted 24-hour filibuster where advocates, citizens, and 11 survivors of Jeffrey Epstein’s crimes took turns reading the unsealed files aloud.
“Inside the New York installation, we proved that the truth becomes impossible to ignore the moment it stops being a headline on a digital feed and takes up physical space,” said David Garrett, an organizer for the Institute for Primary Facts. “Standing in the room forces a visceral reckoning with the sheer, undeniable weight of this evidence. We are opening our doors in Washington to ensure these 3.5 million pages of records are never scrubbed from our collective history.”
“For years, survivors have been encouraged to tell our stories over and over again, only to be met with inaction,” said Danielle Bensky, a prominent advocate and survivor of Jeffrey Epstein’s trafficking network. “Here is the action. This installation isn’t about us recounting our personal trauma – it is about truth and transparency. And the proof in these physical files makes it hard for those in power to look the other way.”
The Reading Room is an exercise in radical transparency designed to move the Epstein Files out of the digital abyss and into a physical space where the magnitude of the evidence is impossible to ignore.
The Reading Room spans two floors of a 12,000 square foot gallery space near Judiciary Square. Visitors are encouraged to explore the space, but because the Trump DOJ has failed to redact identifying information about the victims and survivors, the shelved volumes are kept behind velvet ropes. While general public viewing is available in the afternoon, Members of Congress, law enforcement, and credentialed journalists, as well as survivors, victims, and their advocates, may schedule private morning appointments to access and research the printed files.
Reservations for a free visit to the Reading Room will open on Thursday, June 4 at trumpsonian.us/rr. The exact address is provided upon reservation confirmation.
About The Institute for Primary Facts
The Donald J. Trump and Jeffrey Epstein Memorial Reading Room is the first major installation of The Institute for Primary Facts, a 501(c)3 not-for-profit organization supporting transparency and public education in the Trump era.”