On Special Exhibit: Official Inaugural Medals
October 25, 2024- January 31, 2025
This exhibit focuses on “Official Inaugural Medals”—commemoratives authorized by each Presidential Inaugural Committee since 1901. The medals cover presidents from 1901 to the present day. 33 medals are on display in our lower galleries. They are on loan from Matthew Chiarello.
On Special Exhibit:
UPSET! Harry Truman and the 1948 Election
May 30, 2024 - February 1, 2025
With the world watching the pivotal 2024 election, a new Truman Library exhibition recalls the biggest political upset in U.S. history. Promising Americans a “Fair Deal” while campaigning against a “do-nothing Congress,” Truman changed the nation’s tune—from MILD to WILD about Harry.
A new temporary exhibition, UPSET! Harry Truman and the 1948 Election, allows visitors to travel back in time to see how the most stunning surprise in U.S. presidential election history came about. The exhibit, which includes over 100 artifacts, original political cartoons, interactive displays, diary entries, photographs, and videos, opens May 30, 2024, and runs through February 1, 2025, at the Harry S. Truman Presidential Library & Museum in Independence, Missouri.
On Special Exhibit:
Artistic Views of the Truman Home
September 30, 2024 - December 31, 2024
The prominent Victorian home at 219 North Delaware Street in Independence, Missouri, has been a source of inspiration for artists who have created sketches, paintings, photographs, scale models, and other depictions of the home. Artistic Views of the Truman Home features more than a dozen different artistic renditions of the house and more than 50 photographs. President Truman and his wife Bess lived together in the home for 53 years, from their marriage in 1919 until the President died in 1972.
Independence artist Muriel Winn Luedeman inspired the exhibition. In 2023, Luedeman completed her painting, “Truman’s White House” and loaned it to the Museum, sparking the staff’s idea to develop this exhibition of varied artistic perspectives on the home, including a scaled model of the presidential dwelling.
