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Hoover Library sponsors Three Health Care Forums. Click here for more information and registration.

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Visit the Hoover/Belgium
education site and
Remembering Herbert Hoover

Presidential Timeline, Coming Soon

C-SPAN Click here to see the film footage as seen on C-SPAN's Presidential Libraries: History Uncovered.

See video of the presidential library directors talking about their "favorite things" at the 50th anniversary celebration of the Truman Library!


Mr. and Mrs. Hoover

"The imperative need of this nation at all times
is the leadership of Uncommon Men or Women."
— Herbert Hoover, August 10, 1954


The Hoover Library & Museum enables visitors to experience for themselves the many sides of Iowa's only president:

  • The permanent galleries begin with Hoover's boyhood in Iowa and continue on to the Waldorf Towers in New York where he spent the final years of his life.

  • The Quarton Gallery offers exciting temporary exhibits relating to American history.

  • In the Hoover Library people of all ages can learn about President Hoover's life and career. Using manuscripts, photographs and oral histories, one can learn the stories of our history.

Herbert Hoover Presidential Museum


The Hoover Museum sits on the grounds of the Herbert Hoover National Historic Site where visitors can tour:

  • Mr. Hoover's birthplace cottage
  • a blacksmith shop
  • Quaker Meeting house
  • the gravesite of Mr. and Mrs. Hoover


Herbert Hoover video with Margaret Hoover

The Herbert Hoover Library Association has recently completed a new Hoover Library & Museum Orientation film hosted by Herbert Hoover's great granddaughter Margaret Hoover.

Click on the picture to view the video, please be patient, this takes several minutes to load.

Now Showing

Political Memorabilia on display at the Hoover Museum

Now thru November 4, 2008
Presidential Political Memorabilia


Caroline Kennedy Doll Exhibit

April 26 - November 2, 2008
Children in the White House:
Caroline Kennedy's Dolls


Coming Soon

A Very Elvis Christmas
November 22 - January 4, 2009

A celebration of Christmas with Elvis inspired trees.

Games

Hoover Wore Many Hats Hoover Wore Many Hats, an interactive game for children of all ages. Play the game.

Hoover's Cross-Country Adventure
Hoover's Cross-Country Adventure Drive your car across the USA by answering state trivia. Have fun and learn along the way!   Play the game!
(This game works best with Macromedia's Flash Player. Download the free Flash Player from Macromedia.)