Barack Obama Presidential Center

The Barack Obama Presidential Center is a museum, library, and education project in Chicago to commemorate the presidency of Barack Obama, the 44th president of the United States. The center includes a museum, community and conference facilities and houses the nonprofit Obama Foundation. Also included within the Center is a branch of the Chicago Public Library, and a community athletic facility, within a broad expanse of landscaped public park, gardens, and playground. A dedication ceremony was held on June 18, 2026, before opening to the public the next day, on June 19, Juneteenth.

The center's work includes digitizing the Barack Obama Presidential Library with the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), to create the first fully digitized presidential library. Though NARA, which administers the library, loaned many documents and artifacts to the Presidential Center for display, they will be archived and preserved at a separate facility. The library holds over 600 cubic feet of audiovisual recordings and approximately 3 million photographs, predominantly from Obama's time in the White House.

The center is located on a 19.3-acre (7.8 ha) campus in Jackson Park on the South Side of Chicago, adjacent to the University of Chicago campus. The center's main entry point is located at John Lewis Plaza. The university provides planning, support, engagement and programming.