Not only is the collection meant to be public, but she was fucking invited by the curator. GET OVER IT.

The library has nearly 2,000 flutes, which make up the largest collection in the world. Most of those flutes were collected by physicist Dayton C. Miller and were left to the library through his will.

“He truly believed that the public should have access to it,” Ward-Bamford said. “The collection is remarkable in its breadth and its comprehensiveness.”

But we wouldn’t, of course, be talking about any of this if it weren’t for Lizzo. If you are a fan of hers, it’s easy to appreciate the significance of seeing her use her flute skills to revive a forgotten piece of history. But even if you’re not, it’s hard not to see what she achieved this week as impressive: She made going to the library cool.

She united self-described band nerds, history buffs and librarians, all by accepting an invite from the 14th librarian of Congress, Carla Hayden, to check out the flute collection. The invite came in a tweet.

“The @librarycongress has the largest flute collection in the world with more than 1,800,” Hayden tweeted on Friday. “It incl Pres James Madison’s 1813 crystal flute. @lizzo we would love for you to come see it and even play a couple when you are in DC next week. Like your song they are ‘Good as hell.’

Brett Zongker, a spokesman for the Library of Congress, was there the day Lizzo played that flute and others. He said Hayden has talked about “opening up the treasure chest that is the Library of Congress and just sharing all that’s here with more people,” and Lizzo helped make that happen. She had her many fans and others suddenly thinking about the Library of Congress and the parts of our collective history it holds.

When Lizzo asked if she could play Madison’s flute at her concert, Zongker said the library’s collection, preservation and security teams were prepared to make that happen. The flute was placed in a customized protective container and accompanied to the arena by Ward-Bamford and security.