George H.W. Bush Presidential Library and Museum

Bush Presidential Library is to preserve and make available for research the official records, personal papers, and artifacts of President George H.W.

Bush, to support democracy, promote civic education, and increase historical understanding of U.S. national experience through the life and times of George H.W.

The textual archives contain more than 44 million pages of personal papers and official documents subject to the Presidential Records Act, as well as personal records from associates connected with President Bush's public career as Congressman, Ambassador to the United Nations, Chief of the U.S. Liaison Office in China, Chairman of the Republican National Committee, and Director of the Central Intelligence Agency.

As in all NARA presidential libraries, records are housed in acid-free storage (Hollinger) boxes in a balanced humidity and temperature atmosphere.

In addition to memoranda, speeches, and reports found in the textual collection, there is an extensive audio-visual and photographic archive.

Permanent exhibits draw on the best of the museum collection to visually convey the essence of George Bush's life and public service career and to illustrate historical events of this period in American history.

[11][12][13] On December 2, 2019, a life-size bronze statue of Sully, the President's service dog during his final six months, was unveiled at the site.

Former president George H. W. Bush (left) with his son then-Texas Governor, and later president, George W. Bush (right) and daughter-in-law Laura (center) at the dedication of the library
The Day the Wall Came Down by Veryl Goodnight , a 1996 statue of horses leaping over pieces of the actual Berlin Wall , stands on the plaza of the library and depicts the fall of the wall in 1989, when Bush was president.
Burial site in 2016