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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.

13. George W. Bush Presidential Library and Museum

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A woman walks throuogh the entrance to the archives at the George W. Bush Presidential Library, Monday, Jan. 14, 2013 on the Southern Methodist University campus in Dallas. The moving-in process is underway at the George W. Bush Presidential Library, where some 40,000 artifacts from his time in the White House will be kept.

  • By Ross Atkin Staff writer

Website: www.georgewbushlibrary.smu.edu/

Location: Dallas, on the campus of Southern Methodist University (George W. Bush's birthplace: New Haven, Conn., 1946)

Scheduled opening: May 1, 2013.

Interesting facts: Trees from President Bush's Prairie Chapel Ranch in Crawford, Texas, have been used to landscape the 23-acre library site. The building, like the Clinton Presidential Center in Arkansas, is a state-of-the-art environmental facility. Its archive will include 200 million e-mails, the largest electronic records collection of any presidential library. Online, the library already offers 360-degree views of some of the many gifts and artifacts the president and first lady Laura Bush collected during their time in the White House. Among the featured objects is the bullhorn Mr. Bush used to speak to first responders amid the ground zero rubble shortly after 9/11.

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