The mission of the George Bush Presidential Library and Museum 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 our national experience through the life and times of George Bush. 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 boxes in a balanced humidity and temperature atmosphere. The archival storage area houses 13,000 cubic feet of records and the library has a National Security vault holding 3,500 cubic feet of Presidential Records. In addition to memoranda, speeches, and reports found in the textual collection, there is an extensive audio-visual and photographic archive that includes approximately 2 million photographs and thousands of hours of audio and video tape.

A statue of horses leaping over pieces from the Berlin Wall stands on the plaza of the library. The statue depicts the fall of the wall in 1989, when Bush was president. The museum has just under 17,000 square feet of permanent exhibit space.

LARRY PERSONAL NOTE: WHEN I VISITED THE PLACE WAS CLOSED OFF BY POLICE, PRESUMABLY FOR A VISIT BY SOME HIGH-UP DIGNITARY SO I WAS UNABLE TO GO INSIDE