(Radio Iowa) - Plans are on track to completely revamp the eastern Iowa facility which honors the only American president who was born in Iowa.
The Herbert Hoover Presidential Library and Museum in West Branch is getting a 20-million dollar make-over, inside and out, according to David Ancelet, an assistant director of the Hoover Presidential Foundation. The long renovation will start sometime early next year and will wrap up in the summer of 2026. The full remodel and renovation project will essentially take the interior of the facility down to the studs, with an exterior facade update as well.
While hundreds of pieces of Hoover memorabilia have been shown over the decades in the museum, Amcelet says hundreds more are in storage that will finally be shown to the public, many for the first time. The museum first opened in 1962 and hasn't had a full remodel since the early 1990s.