The Eisenhower Presidential Library & Museum

 200 Southeast Fourth Street
Abilene, Kansas 67410
(785) 263-6700

Museum & Family Home
Wednesday - Saturday 10 AM - 2 PM
Adults $20     62+ $17     Students $10

Eisenhower Museum nominated as one of the eight Wonders of Kansas

Dwight D. Eisenhower statue
11' statue of Dwight D. Eisenhower by Robert Dean
Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Library
Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Library

The Eisenhower Presidential Library & Eisenhower Museum in Abilene, Kansas was started in 1962. It includes a Visitor Center, Dwight D. Eisenhower's boyhood home, the Place of Meditation, the Eisenhower Presidential Library and Museum, in a park like setting. Allow about 2 hours if you wish to see it all.

Many things at the Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential complex are free, except the Eisenhower boyhood home at and the Eisenhower Museum, which have an admission price of $20 ($15 for museum only, $7 for home only). Admission is free July 4, November 11 and the first Saturday of June when there is a free Symphony at Sunset Annual D-Day Commemoration Concert. The annual concert is held outdoors on the grounds of the Eisenhower Presidential Library and Museum.

The museum had a major renovation in 2018 and 2019. It is much more polished since the renovation and actually feels larger than before, though I think that is just good design. The exhibits which I enjoyed the most included World War 1, particularly D-Day, the early US Space Program, and a small gallery devoted to Ike's wife, Mamie.

An hour was about the right amount of time for me to spend at the museum, and about 45 minutes for the rest of the Presidential complex. Some visitors will be satisfied with a tour of the rest of the complex, omitting the museum.

The Eisenhower Library includes 480 manuscript collections; over 300,000 still photographs; thousands of hours of motion picture film, audio tapes and discs; oral history transcripts; 25,000 books and many other objects. But, you can't see the collections. The library has just one gallery open to the public. The library is free and open from 9 AM - 4:45 PM, 362 days a year as of this posting. The hours are extended in the summer. Call to confirm at (785) 263-6700.

The Place of Meditation is a combination chapel and Mamie and Ike Eisenhower's tomb. Admission to the Place of Meditation is also free.

While you are in Abilene, visit the Greyhound Hall of Fame, across the street from the Eisenhower Presidential Museum. Admission is free and the Hall of Fame is open 7 days a week.

Eight Wonders of Kansas

The Kansas Sampler Foundation selected Eisenhower Presidential Museum as one of the Eight Wonders of Kansas

Other sites selected as the Eight Wonders of Kansas include the Cathedral of the Plains, Kansas Cosmosphere, Monument & Castle Rocks, and the Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve.

Eisenhower Family Home
Eisenhower Family Home

Eisenhower Museum
World War 2 at the Eisenhower Museum


1954 Campaign for US President

Mamie Eisenhower Exhibit at the Eisenhower Museum
Mamie Eisenhower Exhibit

Dwight D. Eisenhower offical portrait
This painting is the official portrait of the President. The artist, 
J. Anthony Wills from Houston, Texas painted 5 copies of the
portrait. One of them hangs in the White House.
The location of the other three copies is unknown.

Eisenhower Place of Meditation
Place of Meditation

Mamie and Ike's tomb
Dwight and Mamie's tombs in the Place of Meditation

Eisenhower Museum's web site
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