DAY TRIP

The 9-acre Richard Nixon Library & Birthplace features a 52,000 square-foot museum, 22 galleries, movie and interactive video theaters, manicured gardens, the president’s original home — built in 1910 — and the burial sites of the president and Patricia Nixon. The Library is supported by private funding and is dedicated to educating the public about the life of the 37th president.

HOURS

Open daily from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.; Sundays 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Closed Thanksgiving and Christmas.

ADMISSION

$9.95 for adults; $6.95 for seniors (62 or over) and military personnel with ID; $5.95 for students; $3.75 for children 7 to 11; children 6 and under are free. Groups of 20 or more with reservations are $5.25 per person. For docent-guided tours, cost is $9.95, $8.75 for seniors.

GETTING THERE

Take the 5 Freeway north to 57 Freeway. Take 57 Freeway north and exit Yorba Linda Boulevard. Turn right on Yorba Linda Boulevard. The museum is at 18001 Yorba Linda Blvd.

BIRTHPLACE

The birthplace was restored in exactly the same place where President Nixon’s father built it. Security and sprinkler systems were installed during the restoration, but no part of the actual house was rebuilt, and most of the furnishings — including the bed where the president was born and the piano he learned to play — are original.

WORLD LEADERS EXHIBIT

This exhibit features 10 life-size statues of world leaders including Mao Tse-Tung and Chou En-lai of China, Golda Meir of Israel, Winston Churchill of Great Britain, Charles deGaulle of France, and Nikita Khrushchev and Leonid Brezhnev of the USSR. Gifts presented to the president and his wife by heads of state and world governments are also on display.

— Sue Thoensen