On July 11, 2007, the National Archives opened the new Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum in the facilities formerly occupied by the private Richard Nixon Library and Birthplace.

Under legislation passed in January 2004, the Nixon Presidential Materials, currently housed at the National Archives facility in College Park, Maryland, will move to the Library and Museum in Yorba Linda, California.

In spring 2010 the Nixon Library will move presidential documents and audio-visual materials from its stack areas in College Park, Maryland to the Library campus in Yorba Linda, California.

On-site reference services on the Nixon Presidential textual and audio-visual collection in College Park, Maryland, will be suspended on Friday, February 19, 2010 to prepare the materials for delivery to California.

On-site reference on Nixon presidential documents will begin in Yorba Linda, California, in late June or early July 2010. The precise date of opening, which will depend on the arrival dates of the textual shipments, will be publicized as soon as possible in early 2010.

Between January 15, 2010 and April 2, 2010 the research room in Yorba Linda, California, will be open by APPOINTMENT ONLY. If you would like to schedule an appointment to visit our research room to conduct research during this time frame, please contact Supervisory Archivist Gregory Cumming at gregory.cumming@nara.gov or 714-983-9131.

As of April 5, 2010, the research room in Yorba Linda will be closed until the presidential collection reopens at the facility in June/July 2010. Email, telephone and mail assistance for researchers interested in the records currently in Yorba Linda will continue on a limited basis from April until June/July.

As of June 2010, the Library campus in Yorba Linda will have copies of all publicly-released White House tapes. Eventually all opened tapes will be available online at www.nixonlibrary.gov. The research room at the National Archives in College Park will retain a reference copy of the tapes. [See Also:  Obtaining Nixon White House Tapes]

Construction and move timetable updates will be available at www.nixonlibrary.gov. Please send any questions about the move or reference closures to nixon@nara.gov.

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