Editor’s note: This story has been updated with the correct date tickets go on sale.
WOODLAWN — Tickets to the Obama Presidential Center go on sale to the public next week, ahead of the center’s long-awaited opening on Juneteenth.
Tickets to the Obama Center, 6001 S. Stony Island Ave., go on sale Wednesday, according to the Obama Foundation.
General-admission tickets include access to all four levels of the museum, the replica Oval Office and the Sky Room. Tickets to the museum are timed, with visitors encouraged to attend within 10 minutes of their scheduled time, foundation officials said.
Museum tickets for Illinois residents are $26 for adults and $15 for kids ages 3-11, while residents can get free tickets on Tuesdays. Non-residents will pay $30 per adult ticket and $23 per child ages 3-11.
Free tickets are available for:
- Children 2 and younger.
- In-state educators teaching pre-kindergarten through 12th grade.
- Holders of EBT or WIC cards.
- Active-duty military members, veterans and Chicago first responders.
Tickets for guided tours, which take 90 minutes, are also available. Tour tickets are $75 per person Monday-Wednesday and $95 per person Thursday-Sunday.
For more information on tickets, click here. To learn about discounted and free tickets, click here.
The Obama Center’s opening ceremony, which will be livestreamed, is June 18. The public launch on June 19 will be followed by a free weekend of performances, food, art and activities around the Obama Center’s Jackson Park campus from June 20-21.
The Obama Presidential Center’s museum is open 1-8 p.m. Mondays and 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Tuesday-Sunday. Final entries to the museum are allowed an hour before closing.
The privately funded, $850 million campus will include the museum building, the Home Court athletics facility, a forum building, a Chicago Public Library branch, public art and green space. While the museum is ticketed, the campus will be free and open to the public.
The Obama Center’s placement in Chicago was announced in 2015. Construction on the campus began in 2021, the same year the center was initially planned to open.
Development was delayed for years partly because of a number of failed legal challenges to its location in Jackson Park, as well as a series of federal reviews. It reached a construction milestone in June 2024, when the main museum building reached its full height.
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