Opened on the campus of Southern Methodist University (SMU) in 2013 at a cost of over $300 million, this vast facility documents the presidency of George W Bush. Like other presidential libraries it has two missions: to allow research and to present a record of the president to the public. Exhibits include all manner of gifts Bush received while president.
Its most interactive feature is the Decision Points Theater which allows you to see how Bush made decisions around events such as 9/11 and the invasion of Iraq. The approach is genial throughout. Although Bush had no connection to SMU, the university outbid others to host the facility. (Bush's father George HW Bush went through the same process when he located his presidential library at Texas A&M, a school where he had no previous connection.)
It's close to the DART Mockingbird station.
