Inside Obama's Presidential Museum Opening This Month: The Cost, the Books and a Beehive
The $850 million center is the most expensive presidential library in history and is expected to draw up to 1 million visitors a year.
- On June 19, the $850 million Obama Presidential Center opens in Chicago's Jackson Park, marking the most expensive presidential library project in history.
- Development of the 20-acre campus faced legal challenges over historic parkland use, though Obama Foundation CEO Valerie Jarrett said the project adds 3.7 acres of open green space despite controversies.
- Tickets for the museum cost $30, the highest of any U.S. presidential museum; the campus features 28 site-specific art installations and a full-scale replica of the Oval Office.
- Officials project up to 1 million annual visitors to the center, which includes a new Chicago Public Library branch and is expected to serve as an economic engine for the South Side.
- Breaking from tradition, the center operates as a fully digital archive, digitizing 30 million pages for public access; museum director Louise Bernard said the mission encourages visitors to "take a thoughtful moment to understand" presidential power.
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Nine years have passed since Barack Obama's term as the 44th president of the United States ended, and now his presidential center is opening in Chicago. The sprawling complex is dominated by a nearly 70-meter-high tower, which locals have begun to call "the silo," and which reminds others of structures from Star Wars. The entire complex, with parks, gyms, a museum, and a library, cost nearly 18 billion crowns. This was laughed at by current Pre…
A first look inside the $850 million Obama Presidential Center
The Obama Presidential Center isn’t just a library, but a sprawling campus designed by the architects Tod Williams and Billie Tsien, featuring a monumental collection of art, a replica of the Oval Office, a basketball court, and a branch of the Chicago Public Library. We took a look inside before its opening on June 19.
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Inside Obama's presidential museum opening this month: The cost, the books and a beehive
Former President Barack Obama’s presidential museum will open June 19 more than a decade after Chicago was selected for the project. Along with campaign memorabilia, presidential artifacts and a look at White House life, the museum campus will feature things…
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