Lyndon Baines Johnson Presidential Library and Museum

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Museum Hours:
Open every day,
except Christmas
9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

Reading Room Hours:
9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
Monday through Friday
Closed Saturday, Sunday, and on Federal Holidays.

Free Admission & Parking

Contact Info
LBJ Library and Museum
2313 Red River St.
Austin, TX 78705
(512) 721-0200
johnson.library@nara.gov

Group Visit Information:
Schedule your school tour at (512) 721-0184
tour@lbjlib.utexas.edu

One block west of I-35
(between MLK and 26th Street)

Click Here for Directions

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I hope that visitors who come here will achieve a closer understanding of the Presidency and that young people will get a clearer comprehension of what this nation tried to do in an eventful period of its history.
- Lyndon B. Johnson

Open Government on the Internet: A New Era of Transparency
On May 15, 2009, the Lyndon Baines Johnson Presidential Library and Museum, and the LBJ School of Public Affairs of the University of Texas at Austin, in co-sponsorship with the Freedom of Information Foundation of Texas, will co-host this one-day conference with speakers and panelists interacting simultaneously, through videoconferencing, in Austin, Texas and Washington, D.C. [more...]

Moon Shots: The Art of Pat Rawlings, The LBJ Library opens a new art show featuring the unique work of Austin resident Pat Rawlings. [more...]

First dog Bo Bo, welcome to the White House. Learn about Lyndon Johnson's pets; one
even sang with the President. [more...]

Dr. Betty Sue Flowers to step down
as Director of LBJ Library and Museum. [more...]

The LBJ Library & Museum presents To the Moon: The American Space Program in the 1960s, a major exhibit celebrating man’s venture into space. [more...]

As is evident from the construction surrounding the LBJ Library and Museum and the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs, work is well underway to repair the leaky and deteriorating LBJ Plaza. [more...]

LBJ and the "Great Society" - A new video

"It is all here: the story of our time with the bark off.”
- Lyndon Baines Johnson

The Lyndon Baines Johnson Library holds more than 45 million pages of manuscripts, an extensive audiovisual collection, and oral history interviews with more than 1,000 individuals. [more...]

Membership contributions from the Friends have helped make the Library a center of intellectual activity and community leadership by providing support for symposia and conferences, special exhibitions in the Museum, research grants-in-aid for scholars, and a series of Evening With programs that bring distinguished and prominent lecturers to the Library each year.

We invite you to become a member of the Friends of the LBJ Library. [more...]

In honor of the Lyndon B. Johnson Centennial Celebration, we are pleased to offer a limited number of autographed copies of President Johnson's The Vantage Point, Perspectives of the Presidency 1963-1969. [more...]

LBJ Medallion Obama Inauguration memorabilia, along with items from LBJ's 1965 Inauguration, are now available at the Museum Store. [more...]

	Educational Symposium The LBJ Library and Museum and Education Service Center, Region XIII will co-sponsor a symposium for high school teachers at the LBJ Library on July 13 and 14, 2009. [more..]

	Primarily Teaching This workshop provides a varied program of lectures, demonstrations, analysis of documents, independent research, and group work that introduces teachers to the holdings and organization of the Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and Museum. [more..]

The $2,500 D. B. Hardeman Prize is awarded annually for the best book that focuses on the U.S. Congress, from the fields of biography, history, journalism, and political science. The deadline for submission is August 31, 2009. [more..]