President Bill Clinton's 1st Home Museum has just been awarded a marvelous grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services, the Department of Arkansas Heritage and the Arkansas Museums Association. The grant provides a year-long program of expert assistance to the board and staff in governance and all aspects of museum development. One of only 20 grants awarded, we are all delighted and eager to learn.   more »

President Bill Clinton's 1st Home is on the National Register of Historic Places.  Legislation to include the site in the National Park Service's Presidential Sites is working it's way through Congress. 

Meanwhile, this fall the NPS has included our information in their Travel Itinerary.  This is a significant honor for our site and we are thrilled to have President Clinton's 1st Home listed with those of other American presidents.

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Over forty-thousand people have visited Hope, Arkansas since the Clinton Birthplace Museum was restored and opened in 1997 by the Clinton Birthplace Foundation.  Of the world’s 193 countries, citizens from 157 countries have come to visit President Bill Clinton’s first home,  the home he shared with his widowed mother and maternal grandparents Edith and Eldridge Cassidy.  The museum’s World Atlas Map is filled with red visitor pins from Antarctica to Greenland, all around the equator and almost everywhere in between.  Visitors make the pilgrimage because President Clinton’s ideas and policies have had an important impact in their lives and their ...   more »

Over forty thousand people have visited Hope, Arkansas since the Clinton Birthplace Museum was restored and opened in 1997 by the Clinton Birthplace Foundation.  Of the world’s  193 countries,  citizens from 157 countries have come to visit President Bill Clinton’s first home,  the home he shared with his mother and maternal grandparents Edith and Eldridge Cassidy.  The museum’s World Atlas Map is filled with red visitor pins from Antarctica to Greenland, all around the equator and almost everywhere in between.  Visitors make the pilgrimage because President Clinton’s ideas and policies have had an important impact in their lives and their ...   more »