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THE ANCIENT WORLD: Unlocking the Middle East

THE ANCIENT WORLD: Unlocking the Middle East 

July 15, 2024 - July 6, 2025

Over the past six years, the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum, in partnership with the Richard Nixon Foundation, has been observing historically significant milestones of the Nixon Administration as part of its 50th anniversary. This year we are acknowledging the conclusion of the Yom Kippur War and President Nixon’s subsequent trip to the Middle East in 1974. To commemorate this, we will be opening a temporary exhibit, The Ancient World: Unlocking the Middle East. 

In this special exhibit, visitors will be immersed in the history of the region up to 1979. They will visit a street market in Jerusalem, walk through the courtyard of a Persian palace, and enter the tomb inside an Egyptian pyramid. Studying the ancient Middle Eastern societies of Israel, Persia, and Egypt can help to unlock the complex relationships between those nation-states in the early 20th century. Moving from the ancient to the modern, museum visitors may reflect on the beginning of Western interest in and the exploration of the region. 

The many regional conflicts of the 20th century will be explored. Visitors will see the original hotline equipment linking Washington and Moscow, which President Nixon and Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev used during the tense days of the Yom Kippur War in 1973. In the  conclusion of the exhibit, museum visitors will exit through Camp David and learn about the work done during the Camp David Accords and the Arab-Israeli peace process in 1979.

Ancient World

 

 

Celebrating 100 Years of the American Foreign Service Association and the United State Foreign Service

AFS

May 24 to November 5, 2024

In seven banners hanging along the colonnade adjacent to the Malek Orientation Theater, the display tells the story of the origin, development, and contributions of the U.S. Foreign Service – the career diplomats who advise the president on international affairs and advance our nation’s interests serving in 165 foreign countries.  The exhibit commemorates the centennial of the Foreign Service’s founding in 1924.  The display was developed in cooperation with the American Foreign Service Association -- the professional association of career U.S. diplomats – which also celebrates its 100th anniversary this year.