Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and Museum

Lyndon Baines Johnson Library
Shown within Texas
Location	30.2857°N 97.7292°W / 30.2857; -97.7292 Austin, Texas, USA
Dedicated	May 22, 1971
Named for	Lyndon B. Johnson
Architect	Gordon Bunshaft of Skidmore, Owings, and Merrill
Size	14 acres (57,000 m²)
Website	LBJ Presidential Library

The Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and Museum is one of 13 Presidential Libraries administered by the National Archives and Records Administration. The Library houses 45 million pages of historical documents, including the papers of Lyndon Baines Johnson and those of his close associates and others. The Library was dedicated on May 22, 1971, with Johnson and then-President Richard Nixon in attendance. The current director is Presidential historian Mark K. Updegrove. President Johnson is buried at his ranch, near Johnson City, Texas, at the Lyndon B. Johnson National Historical Park. After her death in July, 2007, the body of Lady Bird Johnson lay in repose in the Library and Museum, just as her husband's had after his death, 34 years earlier.

In 2012, the LBJ Library underwent a multi-million dollar redesign, during which most of the exhibits were closed. On December 22, the Library reopened to the public. In 2013, the library will begin charging admission for the first time since its dedication in 1971.

President Nixon and former President Johnson at the museum's dedication in 1971

The Library, adjacent to the LBJ School of Public Affairs, occupies a 14-acre (57,000 m²) campus that is federally run and independent from The University of Texas at Austin. The top floor of the Library has a 7/8^ths scale replica of the Oval Office decorated as it was during Johnson's presidency. The LBJ Library provides year-round public viewing of its permanent historical, cultural, and temporary exhibits to approximately 125,000 visitors each year.

External links

• LBJ Presidential Library
• The LBJ Foundation
• The LBJ School of Public Affairs
• The LBJ Future Forum
• Friends of the LBJ Library

Further reading

Benjamin Hufbauer, Presidential Temples: How Memorials and Libraries Shape Public Memory (University Press of Kansas, 2005). See ch.3: "Symbolic Power, Democratic Access, and the Imperial Presidency: The Johnson Library."