A Boston library and museum dedicated to the memory of President John F. Kennedy is expanding with the opening of a new wing.
Jean Kennedy Smith, left, former Ambassador to Ireland and sister of the late Senator Edward M. Kennedy, shares a light moment with Caroline Kennedy, right, daughter of late President John F. Kennedy, before groundbreaking ceremonies for the new Edward M. Kennedy Institute for the United States Senate Friday, April 8, 2010 in Boston. Friday's ceremony was held on a site next to the John F. Kennedy Library and Museum. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)BOSTON (AP) — A Boston library and museum dedicated to the memory of President John F. Kennedy is expanding with the opening of a new wing.
Caroline Kennedy, the president's only surviving child, is scheduled to inaugurate a new wing of the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum on Wednesday.
The wing includes 15,000 square feet of archival storage, a staging area for exhibits and curatorial work, and a new temporary exhibit gallery.
It comes after the National Archives in 2001 conducted a program review of the Kennedy Presidential Library and concluded that it had storage problems.
Due to the need to update its archival storage areas, the library will restrict access to its textual archival collections from Aug. 12 through Nov. 15. During this time, only a select number of collections will be physically available to researchers as well as staff members.
The ceremony will also be witnessed by fourth and fifth grade students from the Winship School, a Boston Public School in Brighton.
The John F. Kennedy Library Foundation is a non-profit organization that provides financial support, staffing, and creative resources for the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum. The Kennedy Library Foundation is not a grant-making foundation.
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