Presidential libraries: from Boston to Honolulu ... or maybe Chicago

Presidential libraries can be found coast to coast, and may even go beyond that once a site is selected for President Obama's future repository of documents and artifacts. To quickly hopscotch around to the 13 official presidential libraries and museums overseen by the National Archives, plus that of Abraham Lincoln, check out this library list.

11. George Bush Presidential Library and Museum

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The George H.W. Bush Library is seen Friday, Jan. 11, 2013, on the Texas A&M University campus in College Station, Texas.

Website: bushlibrary.tamu.edu/

Location: College Station, Texas (George H.W. Bush's birthplace: Milton, Mass., 1924)

On 90 acres of the Texas A&M University campus, which includes the Bush School of Government and Public Service

Opened: 1997

Attendance: 120,000

Admission: $7 adults; $6 seniors

Bestselling gift shop biography: "All the Best, George Bush: My Life in Letters and Other Writings" by George H.W. Bush

Hot-selling souvenir items: "41's" fun socks; USS George H.W. Bush aircraft carrier baseball cap; golf ball with library seal and president's facsimilie signature

Lesser-known facts: The library is the first in the presidential libraries network to incorporate a classroom, which serves as both a traditional classroom and a computer learning lab. Among the interesting objects in the museum's collection is a restored 1947 Studebaker that replicates the one that Mr. Bush drove to Texas in 1948 to begin a job in the oil industry after graduating from Yale. 

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