Virtual Gallery Tour
The museum exhibits include interactive components and artifacts sharing Ike and Mamie’s remarkable life using their own words. During your visit you can follow Mamie as she becomes Ike’s life partner and they venture on “their career.” Hear Ike’s voice on issues ranging from D-Day to world peace in the mini-theaters. Finally, reflect on Ike’s lifetime of public service and his legacy for the future.
SPECIAL EXHIBITS — NOW OPEN
Cold War: Soviets, Spies, and Secrets
Museum Special Gallery
The Cold War dominated every facet of postwar 20th century Western life. Bomb shelters, air raid drills, and draft cards were as American as apple pie. Spies infiltrated the highest levels of government on both sides, while the superpowers stockpiled nuclear weapons. Would the United States and the Soviet Union be able to keep the Cold War from getting hot? This exhibit originally curated by the Nixon Presidential Foundation will remain open through March 2025.
D-Day Remembered
Photographs by Fabrice Bourge
Museum Special Gallery
French photographer Fabrice Bourge, a native of Normandy, has witnessed over 25 years of D-Day commemorations beginning with the 50th anniversary in 1994. While the events have grown larger, yet fewer and fewer veterans who landed that fateful day attend, Bourge has concentrated his eye and his lens on the fringes of these events. Captured on black and white film, and individually printed on silver gelatin paper, more than 40 photographs comprise this exhibit. His carefully and reverently selected photographs share the stories of the grateful compassion that contemporary Normans continue to feel for the allied veterans who began the liberation of Europe on these beaches 80 years ago.
19 & '52: Women Unite for Ike
Library building
2nd floor gallery
The 19 & '52: Women Unite for Ike exhibit connects President Eisenhower to the 19th Amendment. Women secured the right to vote throughout the United States in 1920 when the 19th Amendment was ratified. This exhibit explores the connection between the woman suffrage movement and women’s contribution to the 1952 Presidential campaign. Learn about the instrumental women who influenced Dwight Eisenhower. Discover how women’s roles expanded during his Presidency. Find your piece of the puzzle that is American democracy.
SPECIAL EXHIBITS — OPENING IN 2025
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Library Building - 2nd Floor Gallery This specially curated exhibit features items exclusively from the Eisenhower Presidential Library holdings. The displayed items are those nearest and dearest to the team dedicated to the Eisenhower Legacy in Abilene, Kansas! Learn more about the holdings at the Eisenhower Presidential Library and what they mean to the keepers of the Eisenhower legacy. |
WE THE PEOPLE: Portraits of Veterans in America
Fifty Large-Scale Watercolor Portraits of Veterans of All Ages and All Walks of Life - One From Each State
Museum Special Gallery
Opens May 2025
In 2010, internationally renowned artist Mary Whyte set out on an inspirational 7-year mission to paint 50 large scale watercolor portraits of current day American veterans. WE THE PEOPLE: Portraits of Veterans in America is Whyte's remarkable series depicting military veterans of all ages and in all walks of life. Images including a Missouri dairy farmer, Rhode Island lobsterman, Pennsylvania science teacher, South Carolina single mother, and 46 other moving portraits will be showcased together-culminating in a timeless portrait.
