Location On the high eastern portion of the University of Texas at Austin campus; situated on a plaza adjoining Sid Richardson Hall and the LBJ School of Public Affairs.
Address 2313 Red River Street; Austin, Texas 78705-5702
Phone Number (512) 916-5137
Dimensions 200 ft. long; 85 ft. high; 100 ft. wide; 119,835 sq. ft.
Hours 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM daily; closed Christmas Day
Admission Free; made possible by the Friends of the LBJ Library
Administrators Betty Sue Flowers, Director; Patrick Borders, Assistant Director
Constructed by The University of Texas; building and land dedicated to the National Archives and Records Administration for the purpose of maintaining a Presidential Library
Architects Skidmore, Owings and Merrill; partner-in-charge, Gordon Bunshaft (designer)
Architecture Modern in design; exterior and interior of Italian Travertine marble; melding of Library (archives) and Museum; eight floors plus basement
Time frame September 1967 to May 1971
Cost 18 million dollars (for the entire complex)
Dedication May 22, 1971
Attendance 160,000 to 190,000 annually
Archives Over 45 million pieces of paper donated by Lyndon Baines Johnson and associates connected with his public career are housed in acid-free storage (Hollinger) boxes in a balanced humidity and temperature atmosphere. Besides memoranda, speech notations, and reports that are found in the manuscript collection, there is an extensive audio-visual and photographic archives which includes approximately 600,000 still photographs, 1,000,000 feet of motion picture film, 5,000 audio tapes, and 4,000 video tapes.
The Library maintains a manuscript research room on the eighth floor. The collections are utilized by students, scholars, authors, journalists, and anyone else interested in the history of the Johnson administration.
Oral History Project The recollections of Lyndon Johnson's Cabinet members, political opponents, and boyhood friends add personal details to the documentary record. The Project, conducted by The University of Texas until 1974, when it was turned over to the Library, has over 1,700 taped interviews of individuals.
Museum Collection The collection contains 50,000 historical objects ranging from Head of State Gifts, gifts from the people of the United States, and personally used items.
Museum Exhibits draw on the best of the museum collection to visually convey the essence of Lyndon Johnson's life and forty-year public career.
first floor exhibits--orientation theater; permanent exhibit and chronology of President Johnson's personal and political life
second floor exhibits--Head of State gifts; gifts from United States citizens; temporary exhibits
eighth floor exhibits--7/8 replica of Johnson administration Oval Office; First Lady's Gallery; color transparencies of rooms in the White House
First Museum Renovation
Purpose To expand and update exhibit galleries which present new insights into the Johnson years, and into the man himself.
Undertaken by LBJ Foundation and The University of Texas
Exhibit Designer Albert Crounston of New York
Time Frame September 1981 to June 1982
Dedication June 5, 1982
Second Museum Renovation
Purpose To expand and update exhibit galleries which present new insights into the Johnson years, and into the man himself.
Undertaken by LBJ Foundation and The University of Texas
Exhibit designer Gary Yarrington, Curator of the LBJ Library and Museum
Time frame Spring 1995 to Fall 1996