On January 9, 1913, Richard Nixon was born in this little Yorba Linda Farmhouse. His father, Frank Nixon, built this house just a year earlier from a catalogue kit on 8.2 acres of our existing nine-acre museum site.

The Birthplace has been restored with attention to historical detail, on the exact spot where President Nixon’s father built it. Although security and sprinkler systems have been installed, no part of the house was rebuilt. Most of the furnishings, including the bed where the President was born and the piano he learned to play are original.

“As a young boy in Yorba Linda, I never thought of becoming President of the United States or even entering politics, my goal was to become a railroad engineer. Sometimes at night, I was awakened by the sound of a train whistle and I would dream of the faraway places I wanted to visit someday.”

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President Nixon’s Private Study – a part of the room from his New Jersey home, exhibited as it was on April 18, 1994, the day the President suffered the stroke that led to his death. Handwritten letters and speech notes are on the desk and tables; the briefcase was a gift from King Hassan of Morocco. Made possible by the Nixon family...

Domestic Affairs Gallery, reminiscent of the Capitol rotunda in Washington, features Richard Nixon’s achievements in Space, Civil Rights, the Environment, Energy, Urban Affairs, Crime, the Economy, Health and other issues. President Nixon’s Presidential Limousine, a gift of the Ford Motor Company, has been recently added to the Domestic...

The Gowns gallery features wedding gowns worn by Julie Nixon on occasion of her marriage to David Eisenhower (President Eisenhower’s grandson), and by Tricia Nixon on the occasion of her Rose Garden wedding at the White House to Edward Cox. A bridesmaid dress is also displayed next to Julie’s gown as well as a light blue garter worn...

The Lincoln Sitting Room is a historically accurate re-creation of one of President Nixon’s favorite rooms in the White House family quarters. Furnishings include the actual brown armchair and ottoman used by the President.

The Pat Nixon Gallery is a walk-through of the life and times of one of America’s most popular and endearing First Ladies. Born in Ely, Nevada and raised during the Depression on a hardscrabble California farm, after college Pat traded a promising teaching career for political life as Richard Nixon’s indispensable partner. She was his most trusted...

An authentic 12-foot section of the Berlin Wall, which split East and West Berlin for close to 40 years, adorns the Structure of Peace Gallery. The Wall stands as a permanent reminder of America’s struggle against Communism, of which Richard Nixon was apart for over half a century. The Wall was a gift of the Carl N. and Margaret M. Karcher Foundation.

It was President Nixon’s goal throughout his time in office to create a new, lasting structure of peace in the world. In his first inaugural address in 1969, RN stated that “The greatest honor history can bestow is the title of peacemaker.” The Structure of Peace Gallery is among the museum’s largest and chronicles the President’s foreign...

This exhibit featured life-sized, paper machete statues of ten world leaders chosen by President Nixon himself as those who shaped the world during his lifetime and, in his words, “made a difference.” They are as follows: Mao Tse-Tung and Chou En-lai, China Nikita Khrushchev and Leonid Brezhnev, Soviet Union Anwar el-Sadat, Egypt Golda Meir, Israel Winston...

This exhibit highlights the travels of one of our nation’s most active and visible Vice Presidents, Richard Nixon. Commissioned to run with Republican nominee Dwight D. Eisenhower in 1952, the young contender was suddenly elevated to the national scene. After delivering the famed “Checker’s Speech” to clear himself of alleged (and later conclusively...

The exhibit halls begin with the Road to the Presidency, which features displays on Richard Nixon’s military service in the Pacific theater from 1942 to 1946 and subsequent careers in the House of Representatives and Senate. Prompted to run for the House office from California’s 12th Congressional district, Nixon served two terms – from 1947 to...