DIGEST OF WORLD NEWS ON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARIES AND FOUNDATIONS (OCTOBER 2021)

The Herbert Hoover Presidential Museum is reopening

The Herbert Hoover Presidential Museum will be open to the public starting from October 19, 2021 for viewing of the permanent galleries on the life and times of Herbert Hoover and the temporary exhibit gallery, Leonardo da Vinci Machines in Motion.

The Research Room, the Museum Gift Shop and Public and Educational Programs remain closed at this time.

https://hoover.archives.gov/news-and-events

 

Eisenhower Presidential Library reopens to public following COVID-19 closures

Effective Wednesday, October 27, the Eisenhower Presidential Library will welcome visitors inside the building to view the museum exhibits and visit the Place of Meditation following closures due to COVID-19.

https://www.eisenhowerlibrary.gov/eisenhowers/dwight-d-eisenhowers-final-post

 

The LBJ Presidential Library is opening to the public on October 21, 2021

The LBJ Presidential Library is opening to the public on October 21, 2021 and will work 7 days a week. Visitors can enjoy exhibition Lady Bird: Beyond the Wildflowers.

https://www.lbjlibrary.org/news-and-press/press-releases/lbj-presidential-library-opening-public-october-21-2021

 

Professional Learning with the Presidential Libraries

The Carter Library is proud to join the Hoover and Truman Libraries in support of the University of Central Florida Lou Frey Institute’s Professional Learning with the Presidential Libraries series. These professional development programs will provide educators with lucrative resources to share with their students in understanding how our nation’s highest office has responded to domestic and international crises. On October 6, Joshua Montanari, Education Specialist for the Jimmy Carter Presidential Library and Museum held a session: “Going to the Sources: Jimmy Carter and the Camp David Accords”.

On September 17, 1978, Israel and Egypt signed agreements at Camp David, leading to a peace treaty between the two countries the following year that remains intact today. This webinar will assist educators in contextualizing the circumstances of the Camp David Accords through the lens of U.S. History, American Civics and the primary sources of the Carter Library and National Archives.

 https://www.jimmycarterlibrary.gov/events

 

The era of the 90s through the prism of the politics of memory

On October 15-16, the Yeltsin Center in Yekaterinburg hosted the all-Russian conference "The 1990s as a subject of the politics of memory", during which historians, political scientists, cultural scientists and philosophers discussed how historical memory is formed in modern Russia and what image of the 90s was formed in the memory of society.

The conference, designed to present the breadth and variety of approaches to the declared topic, was organized by the Yeltsin Center together with the European University at St. Petersburg and the Ural Federal University named after the first President of Russia B.N. Yeltsin.

https://yeltsin.ru/news/Epoha-90-h-skvoz-prizmu-politiki-pamyati/

 

New rules for attending events at the Yeltsin Center: by QR code and certificates

The rules for visiting the Yeltsin Center have been amended due to the introduction of a special regime in the Sverdlovsk region in connection with the COVID-19 pandemic.

In connection with the introduction of amendments to the Decree of the Governor of the Sverdlovsk Region of 10/22/2021 and the announcement of non-working days from October 30 to November 7, 2021, all program events are canceled at the Yeltsin Center.

https://yeltsin.ru/news/Novye-pravila-posesheniya-Elcin-Centra-po-QR-kodu-i-spravkam/

 

Exhibition "October 18 - Day of Restoration of Independence of the Republic of Azerbaijan"

At the point of issue of the Presidential Library of the Republic of Belarus, the Executive Committee of the Commonwealth of Independent States organized a thematic exhibition dedicated to the Day of Restoration of Independence of the Republic of Azerbaijan. It is designed to tell about the state and political system of modern Azerbaijan, its cultural heritage and traditions.

https://www.preslib.org.by/news/type1/vystavka-18-oktyabrya---den-vosstanovleniya-nezavisimosti-azerbaidzhanskoi-respubliki

 

An Azerbaijani pavilion created by the Heydar Aliyev Foundation in China’s Ancient Residences Cultural Park is inaugurated

A pavilion called “A window to the Azerbaijani culture”, created by the Heydar Aliyev Foundation, started to function in the Ancient Residences Cultural Park in Bengbu city of the People’s Republic of China.

The Azerbaijani pavilion is the first pavilion to function among the limited number of foreign national pavilions. Carpets and kilims representing various carpet schools of Azerbaijan, samples of copper art, decorative creativity and lattice-making art, items of decoration, national garments, music instruments, as well as publications related to Azerbaijan’s culture, history and the country’s contemporary development, and national souvenirs are showcased at the pavilion. Moreover, a bust of Azerbaijan’s poet of genius and thinker Nizami Ganjavi, works of sculpture from the series of Kharybulbul, Maiden Tower and Gazelles, imitation of Gobustan rock carvings are among the exhibits.

Deputy Chairperson of the Permanent Committee of the Chinese People’s Representatives Assembly (parliament), member of the Chinese Communist Party Central Committee’s Political Bureau Van Chen, officials of Anhui province and Bengbu city, representatives of the diplomatic corps in China visited the Azerbaijani pavilion inaugurated in the Ancient Residences Park.