The presidential library museums the National Archives keeps

Since the Truman library opened the model in 1957, the federal government has run its ex-presidents' papers as public buildings: research rooms with archivists on staff, attached to exhibit halls that anyone can pay to walk through. The National Archives lists fifteen of them, and the list is stranger than it sounds, because Ford's records and Ford's exhibits sit at opposite ends of Michigan, George W. Bush's Dallas building is registered as a library with no museum service attached, and the two newest exist only as digital operations with no address at all. What follows are the ones with a door, in the order the Archives itself lists them, with the addresses as the agency prints them.

Places in this collection

• George W. Bush Presidential Library — On the Archives' own list this Dallas building is registered under library services alone, with the museum operated separately as part of t…
• George Bush Presidential Library and Museum — The elder Bush's library at College Station is one of the ones the Archives still lists with full library and museum services, unlike his s…
• Ronald Reagan Presidential Library and Museum — Built on a ridge above Simi Valley at roughly 362 metres, on a road the site was given its own name for. The National Archives operates it,…
• Gerald R. Ford Presidential Museum — The exhibit half of the divided Ford library, on Pearl Street beside the Grand River in the city Ford represented in Congress. Admission is…
• Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library — This is the research half of a library the Archives split in two, and the only presidential library in the system that does not sit under t…
• Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum — Yorba Linda was the family's town and the site is built around that, which is why the address is a boulevard named after it rather than a c…
• Lyndon Baines Johnson Presidential Library and Museum — Ten floors on Red River Street, run by the National Archives on land belonging to the University of Texas. The height is the point: the upp…
• John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum — The Archives gives no street number for this one, only Columbia Point, the harbour spit in Dorchester the building shares with a university…
• Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Library and Museum — The Abilene site is a campus rather than a single building, and several catalogues list it under a longer name that includes the boyhood ho…
• Harry S. Truman Presidential Library and Museum — The first of the federally administered presidential libraries, sited on the highway edge of Truman's home town rather than a university ca…

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