PORTALES, NM – March 8, 2022 – Eastern New Mexico University will soon have access to some of the most important historical documents in the world when the Remnant Trust exhibition opens at the Golden Student Success Center (GSSC) on August 2022.
Remnant Trust is a public educational foundation which shares a collection of manuscripts and works dealing with individual liberty and human dignity, some of which are more than 4,000 years old. The GSSC will house 38 items on display, with individual appointments or class tours available for those who wish to have a personal experience with history.
Among the items that will be available are a Vulgate Bible dated between 1240 and 1260, a 1763 edition of Plato’s Republic and a copy of the Emancipation Proclamation. The public will be able to physically handle and inspect the documents under librarian supervision.
By sharing these documents and ideas in their original form, Remnant Trust hopes to increase the public’s understanding of individual liberty and how these ideas helped form this nation.
“The Remnant Trust puts into the hands of the everyday American citizen some of the most important intellectual works from history,” said Laura Wight, director of the Golden Library and Roosevelt County Historical Museum. “Engaging with, touching and seeing these documents is an opportunity most of us would never experience in a lifetime. We are extremely lucky to have this opportunity here at ENMU.”
The display will be free and open to the public. For more information on the Remnant Trust, visit http://www.enmu.edu/RemnantTrust.
