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Hoover Library raises admission
News · January 08, 2015


Beginning Jan. 1, 2015, the admission fees to the Herbert Hoover Presidential Library-Museum in West Branch will be increasing for the first time in nine years.


Adult admission price at the Hoover Library-Museum had been the lowest of the 13 presidential libraries and museums run by the National Archives and Records Administration.

The new adult admission price puts it about the middle of the price range.

The new few schedule is:

Adults (ages 16 to 61): $10, which is up from $6

Seniors, Active/Retired Military with ID, and College Students with ID: $5, which is up from $3

Children 6 to 15: $3, up from no charge

Ages 5 and under: Free, no change

This is the first price increase since January 2006.

The cost for adult admission for other presidential libraries and museums, according to the National Archives, from lowest to highest: Bill Clinton $7; Gerald Ford $7; Harry Truman $8; Jimmy Carter $8; George Bush $9; Dwight Eisenhower $10; Herbert Hoover $10; Richard Nixon $11.95; John F. Kennedy $12; Franklin D. Roosevelt $14; George W Bush $16; Lyndon Johnson $16; Ronald Reagan $21

For more info: www.hoover.archives.gov.