The New Teddy Roosevelt Presidential Library Is a Gorgeous Extension of the Prairie
Blending almost seamlessly into a butte in the rugged Badlands of North Dakota, the new Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library is, in a number of ways, unlike any of its predecessors. The most important difference is that the library, which opened on the Fourth of July in Medora, North Dakota, has been wholly conceived, designed and built more than a century after the 26th president's death.
"We were not working for the president. And so we had to think about what is the purpose of this institution? Because it's not about pleasing the ego of one man," said Charles Melcher, the museum's executive storyteller, and founder of the studio Future of StoryTelling.
Instead of making a museum in the traditional mold of a presidential library—flattering exhibitions, robust archives, a tight focus on the time in office—the Roosevelt library was conceived from the start to be an institution where the remarkable and tragic life of a towering American figure known as "TR" is framed as a series of lessons visitors can learn from and take into the future.
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