Remnant Trust exhibition to be hosted at ENMU

Ancient documents will be in a display in Portales this summer.

What are described as some of the most important historical documents in the world will be on display when the Remnant Trust exhibition opens at Eastern New Mexico University’s Golden Student Success Center in August.

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. There will be 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. According to a news release from the Remnant Trust the public will be allowed 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 the United States.

The display will be free and open to the public.