An Ongoing Voyage. This exhibition documents or shows rather the first sustained contacts between the Native American people and European Explorers, settlers, and conquerors between 1492 and 1600. Besides Europeans, other people from other parts of the world as well went to America. Among them were Africans who were taken to America mainly as slaves. The voyage shows representatives of two separate and complex parts of the world that were previously not known to each other. It is more of a discovery from either side of existence of a new people and a new world to them. It was an accidental contact. The encounter took place at the Islands of the Bahamas at the end of the 15th century AD, specifically, in 1492. The encounter brought to an end a history hidden in the obscurity of ignorance. It brought about a long lasting contact which was the beginning of many adventures, many desirable and some undesirable at all. Some of the effects were conquest and exploration, settlement, as well as change of cultures of either side. The effect of this never ended at the end of the seventeenth century but rather the effect s continued to date. This accidental encounter brought them into lasting contact, initiating an intense process of exploration, conquest, and acculturation in the Americas that would continue throughout the sixteenth century and beyond. This exhibition describes both the pre and the post contact worlds of the Mediterranean and the Americas. It is neither possible no fair to exclude Africa from the equation since it was very significant to the two especially between the contact dates and the 1600. The six sections of the exhibition; The myth, inventing America, Europe claims America, the Epilogue , What came to be called America and the Mediterranean world are such important of the world history and the change initiated by the very encounter such that they had to be preserved by the virtue of the library of congress buying the rights to these historical gems. We can begin from the very reason behind the meeting; the voyages of Christopher Columbus, a famous explorer from the state of Genoa in Italy. He voyages though were funded and facilitated by the Spanish crownship . The main aim of the Spaniards was to find a route of trade with the East Indies, a route that they would not conflict with other nations like Portugal that had already benefited from the exploits of Vasco Da Gama. Current day Mexico is more often called the Spanish Mexico with Spanish being their main official language. This is one of the very effects of the issues portrayed in the ‘voyage’. Imperialism was core and actually finding new trade routes and trade destinations was the reason behind the voyage. Even though the original intended place is not where Columbus landed, it still did not stop the idea from gaining roots that developed into colonialism. At that time the doctrine of mercantilism was gaining roots in Europe with a huge wave and thus nations were eager to .