COLUMBUS — A traveling exhibit featuring printed copies of the released Jeffrey Epstein files is making a stop in Columbus this weekend, giving the public a chance to read through thousands of pages of investigative documents in person.
The pop-up, called the Trump-Epstein Reading Room, is set up at the Sanctuary on Neil, 618 Neil Ave., and runs through Sunday, Oct. 11. Visitors can reserve free 20-minute entry times online. The tour is organized by the nonprofit Institute for Primary Facts, which accepts donations to keep the exhibit traveling.
Columbus is one of dozens of stops on the national tour — and one of only five cities to host a dedicated off-site reading room. At other tour stops, the exhibit travels aboard a bookmobile.
Organizers say the reading room holds every released page of the Epstein files, printed and bound into 3,437 volumes weighing a combined 17,000 pounds of paper. Epstein, a financier who sexually abused dozens of underage girls, died in a federal jail cell in 2019 while awaiting trial on sex trafficking charges.
The U.S. Department of Justice began releasing files from its Epstein investigation in late 2025. The nonprofit says survivors of Epstein’s abuse deserve the truth, and that the public deserves a system where wealth and connections cannot shield abusers from punishment.