The life and legal career of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg are being spotlighted in the first-ever retrospective about the famed jurist and American cultural icon, a traveling exhibit opening Feb. 9 at the Illinois Holocaust Museum & Education Center, 9603 Woods Dr., Skokie.

Organized by the Skirball Cultural Center, Notorious RBG: The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg is based on the New York Times bestseller and was created in partnership with the book’s co-authors, Irin Carmon, a senior correspondent at New York magazine, and attorney Shana Knizhnik, who founded the popular Tumblr that earned Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg internet fame. It features diverse media and interactive exhibits to bring Ginsburg’s story to life.

“You can connect in so many ways to this exhibition. Whether you’re a fangirl or a legal scholar, there’s something here for you,” said Susan L. Abrams, Museum CEO.

“A key part of our mission at the Museum is teaching universal lessons to combat hatred, prejudice, and indifference,” Abrams said. “Few people convey these lessons more vividly than Ruth Bader Ginsburg,” which makes this a powerful story for the museum to tell.”

Historical artifacts, modern art, interviews, recordings, photographs, and movies tell Justice Ginsburg’s story as a student, Jew, wife, mother, lawyer, feminist, and Supreme Court Justice.

The exhibit includes artifacts from Justice Ginsburg’s personal life, from a re-creation of the Ginsburg family living room and kitchen to Ruth and Marty Ginsburg’s wedding album and some of their family movies. Visitors can hear recordings of Justice Ginsburg’s incisive legal arguments from landmark cases that include her dissenting opinions during her long career on the Supreme Court.

In addition, visitors can try on Supreme Court robes and Justice Ginsburg’s famous collar or pose for selfies behind a model Supreme Court bench, a light-hearted ending to a thought-provoking and engaging exhibit.

Notorious RBG: The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg will run at the Illinois Holocaust Museum & Education Center Feb. 9 – Aug. 16.

In conjunction with the exhibit, the museum is holding special events that include:

• A conversation with authors of Notorious RBG , Irin Carmon and Shana Znizhnik, who will share how a Tumblr blog inspired by RBG sparked a cultural obsession (Feb. 9, 2:30-3:30 p.m.)
• A performance by Justice Ginsburg’s daughter-in-law Patrice Michaels (March 8, 2-4 p.m.)
• Jump for Justice! – a family program featuring exercise circuits inspired by RBG’s fitness regime (March 15, 2-3:30 p.m.)
• Growing up with Ruth & Marty: An Afternoon with Jim and Jane Ginsburg , RBG’s children (April 26, 2-3:30 p.m.)
• The Role of Judges, Attorneys and Bar Associations During the Holocaust (May 21, 6:30-7:45 p.m.)
• Commemoration of 155th Anniversary of Juneteenth: An Evening with Sherilynn Ifill, President and Director-Counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund (June 10 6:30-8 p.m.)
• Live Entertainment RBG After Dark – Rock to social justice anthems and wear your RBG inspired robes and collars! (June 18, 7-9:30 p.m.)
• Movie Double Feature: RBG and On the Basis of Sex (July 21, 12:30-2:30 and 3-5 p.m.)
• We Dissent! – the Women who Stood with RBG . A conversation with The Honorable Judge Carol Kamin Bellows (Aug. 2, 2-3:30 p.m.)

For more information, visit ilholocaustmuseum.org or call (847) 967-4800.

Yvette Alt Miller, Ph.D. lives with her family in the northern suburbs of Chicago.