Twenty years since Bill Clinton opened his presidential library and museum before a rain-soaked crowd, the area around the glass and steel facility has been transformed.
The museum fueled development around Little Rock's once-sleepy downtown, with a former industrial area to its east blossoming into an entertainment district. Next to the building, cyclists and runners regularly cross what was once a railroad bridge spanning the Arkansas River.
But little has changed inside the museum, which features many of the same exhibits unveiled two decades ago touchscreen displays where visitors can pull up Clinton's daily schedules, replicas of the Oval Office and Cabinet Room, electronic tickers scrolling with the 42nd president's accomplishments.
That's about to change, as library officials are marking the 20th anniversary of its opening and planning for a major update and expansion that will add Hilary Rodham Clinton's personal archives.
"We need to refresh the current exhibits, the technology," Stephanie Streett, the executive director of the Clinton Foundation said.. "The story is not going to change, the story of the Clinton administration and the work he did."
