A museum honoring President Dwight Eisenhower in his childhood home in Kansas reopened Monday after undergoing its first comprehensive renovation since the 1970s.

The modernized exhibits in the 25,000-square-foot (2,322-sq. meter) museum in Abilene feature new display cases, videos and digital interactive stations where visitors learn about Eisenhower's presidency from 1953 to 1961 and about his experience before that during World War II — when he was a U.S. Army general who served as supreme commander of the Allied forces.

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