The Hays Public Library will have a grand opening of the traveling exhibit, “Lincoln: The Constitution and the Civil War” from 5 to 7 p.m. Friday in the Schmidt Gallery.

There will be a Hays Area Chamber of Commerce ribbon-cutting ceremony at 5 p.m., and Abraham Lincoln re-enactor will deliver the Gettysburg Address at 6 p.m. There will be live music and refreshments.

The National Constitution Center and the American Library Association Public Programs Office organized the traveling exhibition, which was made possible by a major grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities. The traveling exhibition is based on an exhibition of the same name developed by the National Constitution Center.