Where JFK's Papers Sit Under Pei's Glass Pavilion
Kennedy's letters, campaign reels, and personal effects fill a museum that opens onto a glass hall above the water.
📜 Kennedy by the water
The John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum sits on Columbia Point in Boston, an I.M. Pei design ringed by a ten-acre park at the harbor's edge. Its galleries trace Kennedy's campaign, presidency, and family through documents, film, and personal effects.
A theater screens a short documentary on Kennedy's life and the Cuban Missile Crisis, and the route later passes a display devoted to the family's White House pets. Cases of letters and photographs carry the exhibits between the two.
The walk finishes in Pei's soaring glass pavilion, a white-and-glass hall that opens onto Boston Harbor. Visitors linger on the benches there, watching sailboats pass after an hour among the archives.
