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Inside Obama’s presidential museum opening this month: The cost, the books and a beehive
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A look at the numbers behind the former President Barack Obama's presidential museum.
$850 million
The approximate cost to build the 225-foot museum tower and nearly 20-acre campus, which the Obama Foundation is paying for with private donations. The cost ballooned from the initial estimates of $350 million.
