AMIA/IASA 2010 Joint Conference
Tour Information

An Evening at Eastern State Penitentiary
Wednesday: November 3 - 8:00pm
Price: $10

In addition to the Penitentiary, the tour will also include a screening inside an actual prison cell of the film "Release" by Bill Morrison, with the filmmaker in attendance. Opened in 1829 as part of a controversial movement to change the behavior of inmates through "confinement in solitude with labor," Eastern State Penitentiary quickly became one of the most expensive and most copied buildings in the young United States. Until its closure in 1971, it housed inmates such as Al Capone, Freda Frost, Slick Willie Sutton, and Morris Bolber. Also screened will be an 8minute silent film created at the prison in 1929. Eastern State Penitentiary is a short cab ride from the hotel.

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Tour of the Library of Congress' Packard Campus for Audio-Visual Conservation at Culpeper, Virginia.
Monday: November 8
Price: $75

The Library of Congress built the new Audio-Visual Conservation facility in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains in Culpeper, Virginia to care for what is generally considered the world's largest and most comprehensive collection of films, television programs, radio broadcasts, and sound recordings. This is clearly one of the landmark developments of recent times in our industry and it champions the factory preservation of large collections.

The tour of these state-of-the-art facilities arranged for the AMIA IASA conference departs from Liaison Capitol Hill Hotel close to the Union Station in Washington, on Monday, November 8 costing only $75. The fare includes the bus trip from Washington to the Packard Campus, a tour of the facilities and a Deluxe Lunch (including beverages). Lunch options.

There is also an option for those wishing to, to have a personally guided tour of the Library of Congress' famous Washington building, with a focus on the Folklore collection on Tuesday, 9 November.

All those wishing to go will need to make their own accommodation arrangements, and a list of nearby hotels is provided to help Hotels Convenient To Union Station. Travel from Philadelphia to Washington is also up to the participants to arrange, but there are a variety of options, including cheap busses, hourly trains and air.

Book early - seats are limited! The Tour will return to Washington, DC around 4:30pm.

 

 

 

 

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