Harry S. Truman National Historic Site

The exhibits in the Library’s museum emphasize the Life and Times of Harry S. Truman and the Truman Presidency. Among the permanent exhibits are a mural painting in the entrance lobby, “Independence and the Opening of the West,” by Missouri artist Thomas Hart Benton; a reproduction of the Oval Office as it was during the Truman administration; and the office which Truman used in his retirement years. At present the Library has about 16,000,000 pages of manuscript materials in its custody. Approximately 6,500,000 are the White House files.