Great Hall, Lyndon B. Johnson Library and Museum Photo Print

"Great Hall in the Lyndon B. Johnson Presidential Library and Museum" by Catherine Sherman. The Great Hall is the heart of the Lyndon Baines Johnson Presidential Library and Museum, according to the official website. This massive space features travertine walls, an engraved presidential seal, a mural, and a spectacular view of four floors of glass-enclosed archives. At 7,686 square feet, the equivalent of 6.6 Olympic-size swimming pools, the space includes permanent and revolving temporary exhibitions throughout the year. The mural in the Great Hall features portraits of LBJ with presidents Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Harry S. Truman, Dwight D. Eisenhower and John F. Kennedy, as well as a portrait of him alone. The Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and Museum, also known as the LBJ Presidential Library, is the presidential library and museum of Lyndon Baines Johnson, the 36th president of the United States (1963–1969). It is located on the grounds of the University of Texas at Austin, and is one of 15 presidential libraries administered by the National Archives and Records Administration. The library houses 45 million documents, photographs, videos, and other historical records, including those of Johnson and his close associates and others. The library, adjacent to the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs, is ten stories high and sits on a 14-acre campus. Although the library is on the grounds of UT Austin, it is federally run and independent from the university. The top floor of the library has a 7/8ths scale replica of the Oval Office decorated as it was during Johnson's presidency, including the Johnson desk. Another exhibit features an animatronic LBJ. The view of the Texas State Capitol from the library's terrace became one of the Capitol View Corridors protected under state and local law from obstruction by tall buildings in 1983. First Lady Lady Bird Johnson toured existing presidential libraries and university campuses to consult the design of the library. The open display of the archives is modeled after Yale University's Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, which Lady Bird Johnson visited when researching designs for the presidential library. The iconic red boxes hold approximately 45 million pages of historical documents from Lyndon B. Johnson's political career as well as from some of his close associates.