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08.06.2021
Nixon Library Reopens with New Exhibitions
The Richard Nixon Library and Presidential Museum opened its galleries to the public May 19 after a closure spanning more than 14 months due to the pandemic.
The facility, which houses more than 70 visual exhibits that take visitors through the life and career of the 37th president, was completely renovated in 2016. The Yorba Linda, California, museum includes a full-sized recreation of President Nixon’s Oval Office and a 12-foot original section of the Berlin Wall.
Three new exhibitions will greet visitors, including The Presidents Club, a storyteller archival exhibit that was open briefly last year. The exhibition is an intimate look at the friendships and rivalries between some of history’s most well known U.S. presidents, from America’s Founding Fathers to present-day leaders.
Another new exhibit, Evening the Odds: Women Leading the Way, is a permanent display showcasing the Nixon administration’s legacy to advance women in athletics, politics, and business.
The President and the Planet is an outdoor exhibit that runs throughout the entire campus, focusing on the Nixon administration’s consequential environmental initiatives still in play today.
The President and the Planet exhibit is geared for kids and families, with fun interactive elements such as animal footprints throughout the grounds that children can discover. The museum staff worked with several local artists on the exhibit, which also includes animal sculptures and other artwork.
Guests can also tour the president’s farmhouse birthplace, as well as the Pat Nixon Rose Gardens and Memorial Site of President and Mrs. Nixon.
https://www.theepochtimes.com/nixon-library-reopens-with-new-exhibitions_3822899.html
“History with the Bark Off”: Lyndon Baines Johnson’s Presidential Library Celebrates 50 Years
On May 22, 1971 – 50 years ago – a high-powered audience of politicians, religious leaders, educators and even Hollywood stars, gathered for the dedication of the LBJ Presidential Library in Austin. Then-President Richard Nixon led the honors for his predecessor’s project.
Lyndon Baines Johnson’s would be the first presidential library located in Texas. The LBJ Library commemorate one of the most turbulent, consequential presidencies of the 20th century, and, in the mold of its namesake, it was the first really big, grand facility of its kind to be built.
Presidential libraries are built with private funds, but operated by the National Archives. A massive 10-story structure that then held 31 million pages of archives – it's up to 45 million pages, today, including papers given by Johnson associates and members of his government.
Johnson offered a vision for the ways in which the library would educate and inform future generations.
The library has provided some of the most remarkable historical artifacts of any presidency – hours of recordings, Johnson made of his Oval Office telephone conversations. The tapes also show that Lady Bird Johnson played a major role in the creation of the library.
It was Lady Bird Johnson who identified a building whose architectural style she thought would be a match for her husband’s vision. She was inspired by Yale University’s Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.
The Beinecke’s architect, Gordon Bunshaft, was hired to design the LBJ library.
The institution’s first purpose, housing the physical records of the Johnson presidency was visually apparent to visitors in 1971, as it is today. Row upon row of red archive boxes stored on the upper floors – their presidential seals facing forward – are visible from the ground level.
Over the past five decades, millions of visitors have passed through the library’s permanent museum exhibits, which chronicle civil rights, voting rights, Johnson’s anti-poverty programs and the Vietnam War.
The library has also played host to an array of public programs, speakers and special events over the years, including a 2014 civil rights summit, with President Barack Obama in attendance.
LBJ’s outsized personality is part of the museum, too – from his Central Texas boyhood, to an almost life-sized replica of Johnson’s Oval Office that features original furnishings, along with the three televisions he used to keep a constant eye on what network news anchors were saying about him. There's even an animatronic version of the 36th president – a replica that moves and speaks. Passersby hear LBJ tell a series of homespun "after dinner" stories.
On its 50th anniversary, the LBJ Library remains closed to the public, as pandemic precautions continue. Library director Lawrence says the building will reopen gradually, beginning this summer.
For now, visitors can view a new web site featuring the "greatest hits" as Lawrence says, of the Johnson phone recordings, along with the documents and photos the contextualize the tapes.
Ronald Reagan Presidential Library & Museum reopens in Simi Valley
The complex is the most visited among all the presidential libraries, museum official said.
The museum staged a blood drive as part of its opening-day events on May 26.
Visitors are urged to make online reservations for timed entry.
The museum has installed enhanced health and safety measures, but fully vaccinated individuals are no longer required to wear masks. Unvaccinated people ages 2 years and older must wear a face covering. The museum’s website, however, said that visitors are permitted and encouraged to continue to wear face coverings at their discretion.
Social distancing is required and floor markers reminding visitors of proper spacing have been installed.
Woodrow Wilson Presidential Library seeks items for COVID-19 history exhibit
The Woodrow Wilson Presidential Library will host a new exhibit “Making History in the Present: A Community Curated Exhibit,” that will share the story of Staunton and Augusta County during the COVID-19 pandemic.
The museum is asking the community to share objects and stories of the past year, including the pandemic, protest movements and the August floods that affected the City of Staunton.
Individuals, businesses, and organizations are encouraged to participate.
Items will be returned after the exhibit ends in March 2022.
The goal of the exhibit, which will open in July, is to allow residents, in their own words, to share their stories of coping in the last eighteen months.
The exhibit is part of a recent Institute of Museum and Library Services grant that was awarded to the Woodrow Wilson Presidential Library in September 2020. IMLS is the primary source of federal support for the nation’s approximately 120,000 libraries and 35,000 museums and related organizations.
The agency’s mission is to inspire libraries and museums to advance innovation, lifelong learning, and cultural and civic engagement. Its grant making, policy development, and research help libraries and museums deliver valuable services that make it possible for communities and individuals to thrive.
JFK exhibition goes on permanent display in Sydney
Striking images of the life and legacy of President John Kennedy are now on display in a new permanent exhibition at ACU’s North Sydney campus.
American Visionary: John F. Kennedy’s Life and Times contains 76 photographs covering the life of John Fitzgerald Kennedy, a president distinguished by his youth, his Catholic upbringing, his Cold War impact, and his untimely death.
The exhibition covers Kennedy’s early life, his time in the Senate, his campaign for the presidency, his time in the Oval Office, and his assassination. The exhibition highlights key aspects of Kennedy’s legacy, such as his role in founding the Peace Corps, advancing the US space program, and encouraging the spread of civil society.
Created to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the birth of the 35th President of the United States in 2017, the exhibition is a gift of the United States government to ACU, commemorating the life and times of America’s first Catholic president.
President Kennedy the only Catholic president of the US until the incumbent President Joe Biden.
American Visionary: John F. Kennedy is Life and Times was created by the John F. Kennedy Library Foundation and WS Productions, using photographs drawn from Getty Images and the Kennedy Presidential Library, and displayed at the Smithsonian American Art Museum and the New York Historical Society and the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library.
It has been previously displayed in regional and festival exhibitions in Australia but will now have a permanent home in the James Carroll building on ACU’s North Sydney campus.
https://www.miragenews.com/jfk-exhibition-goes-on-permanent-display-in-560346/