Former First Lady Michelle Obama is felt throughout the Obama Presidential Center, which opened to the public on June 19th, 2026.
TODAY's Craig Melvin asked Former President Barack Obama what he hopes visitors to the center will learn about his wife's legacy. "She was a full partner. That her journey is just as improbable as mine. She grew up, like I said, 10 blocks from here ... and that little girl, Michelle Obama, ended up being the First Lady of the United States. And was as powerful an ambassador for America, and occupied that office with as much warmth and class and dignity and beauty as anybody could."