The George H. W. Bush Presidential Library and Museum is in College Station, Texas, on a 90-acre site on the west campus of Texas A&M University. It is one of 15 presidential libraries administered by the National Archives and Records Administration. Hellmuth, Obata + Kassabaum designed the building, which covers 69,049 square feet and cost $43 million.
The library was dedicated on November 6, 1997. Its permanent exhibit closed for renovation in April 2007 and reopened on November 10, 2007.
The museum has nearly 17,000 square feet of permanent exhibit space. Visitors can enter a replica of the Oval Office. The archives hold more than 44 million pages of textual records and over 2 million photographs. George H. W. Bush is buried at the library.
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