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Truman Museum

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 - March 1, 2025

 

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.

 

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24-hour info line: (800) 833-1225
Administrative offices: (816) 268-8200
E-mail: truman.library@nara.gov

Admission

Admission to the Truman Library and Museum costs:

  • $12 for adults
  • $10 for seniors 62 and older
  • $10 Veterans / Mil. retired-disabled
  • $8 College Students (with i.d.)
  • $5 Youth 13-18
  • Free for children ages 12 and under
  • There is no admission to enter the Museum Store
  • The Museum is closed on Thanksgiving Day, Christmas Day and New Year's Day.
  • in 2024, the museum is also closed on Christmas Eve and New Year's Eve.

"Harry S. Truman: An Ordinary Man, His Extraordinary Journey"

The major issues and events of Harry Truman's Life and Presidency are highlighted in this exhibition. 

View "An Ordinary Man, His Extraordinary Journey" Online