A presidential library, presidential center, or presidential museum is a facility either created in honor of a former president and containing their papers, or affiliated with a country's presidency.
In the United States
Locations of the NARA-administered (red) and other (blue) U.S. presidential libraries
- The presidential library system, a network of 15 government-run libraries, plus a number of privately-run ones
- Jefferson Davis Presidential Library and Museum in Biloxi, Mississippi, a privately-owned library named after Jefferson Davis, president of the secessionist Confederate States
- Presidential Museum and Leadership Library in Odessa, Texas, about presidents in general
- World's Smallest Presidential Library in Atchison County, Kansas, a museum exhibit about David Rice Atchison, who some have claimed was Acting President of the United States for one day
In other countries
- Presidential Library [az] in Baku, Azerbaijan, established in 2003
- Presidential Library [be] in Minsk, Belarus, a research library[1]
- Saakashvili Presidential Library [ka] in Tbilisi, Georgia, named after former president Mikheil Saakashvili[2]
- South Korea:
- Kim Dae-jung Presidential Library & Museum [ko] in Seoul, named after former president Kim Dae-jung[3]
- Park Chung-hee Presidential Museum in Gumi, named after former president Park Chung-hee[4]
- Vicente Fox Center of Studies, Library and Museum in San Cristóbal, Guanajuato, Mexico, named after former president Vicente Fox
- Olusegun Obasanjo Presidential Library in Abeokuta, Ogun State, Nigeria, named after former president Chief Olusegun Obasanjo
- Boris Yeltsin Presidential Library in Saint Petersburg, Russia, named after Boris Yeltsin, first president of the Russian Federation
- J. R. Jayewardene Centre in Colombo, Sri Lanka, named after Junius Richard Jayewardene, first executive president of Sri Lanka
- Taiwan (Republic of China):
- Chiang Ching-kuo Presidential Library [zh] in Taipei, named after former president Chiang Ching-kuo[5]
- Presidential and Vice-Presidential Artifacts Museum in Taipei, with archives from various presidents and vice presidents of the country
- Presidential Library in Ankara, Turkey, the largest library in the country
References
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