Karpeles Manuscript Library Museum

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Visitors to the city of Santa Barbara, California, shouldn't miss out on the opportunity to get to see the world's largest single private collection of historic manuscripts and other documents, to be found at the Karpeles Manuscript Library Museum. The museum was set up in the early 1980s to help stimulate children's interest in learning, and has since turned into a world-class facility aimed at preserving valuable original documents of all different kinds, including literary, religious, political, historical and scientific texts.

The Karpeles Manuscript Library Museum is located at 21 West Anapamu Street in the heart of town; then, there are nine different regional branches of the Karpeles Manuscript Library Museum distributed across the country to make access to documents easier for professionals. Among the documents to be found at the Karpeles Manuscript Library Museum in Santa Barbara, perhaps the most famous are the original copy of the Bill of Rights to the US Constitution, the Emancipation Proclamation, George Washington's Thanksgiving Proclamation, as well as the original Merriam Webster's dictionary.

Entrance to the Karpeles Manuscript Library Museum and all its services are absolutely free. The hours of operation are daily, 10am-4pm. Learn more at the museum's official website, http://www.rain.org/~karpeles/; also, read up on the museum at Wikipedia by visiting http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karpeles_Manuscript_Library_Museum.

Hotels in the vicinity of the Karpeles Manuscript Library Museum include the Upham Hotel, the White Jasmine Inn, and the El Prado Inn.

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