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Main Gallery
Abraham Lincoln: Self-Made in America
May 31st - June 15th, 2008 |
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Today, America is preparing for a national celebration of the man considered to be the country's greatest and most visionary leader - during its most challenging time. In 2009, the United States will mark the 200th anniversary of Abraham Lincoln's birth. As a special tribute to this bicentennial, the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library & Museum, of Springfield, Illinois, is launching a unique exhibition. The Library and Museum has developed an exhibition mounted in a state-of-the-art, double-wide expandable, semi-tractor trailer. It will present the public with an extraordinary recreation of Lincoln's life, a life so powerfully inspirational and undeniably American that its truths have become legend. Abraham Lincoln: Self-Made in America will reach communities throughout the United States, telling the story of the man behind the legend.
Lakeview Museum is honored to be the first museum in the state outside of Springfield to host this extraordinary exhibit. It will be at Lakeview Museum May 31 through June 15. Admission is free. Check below for exhibit hours.
Abraham Lincoln is often seen as the quintessential self-made man. Campaign biographers emphasized it, and Lincoln himself set the framework in many of his own notes and comments. In fact, Lincoln lived in an age of self-made men and women, many of whom represented the qualities of self-education and self-improvement that are often seen as uniquely Lincolnesque. That Lincoln was not alone in embracing and exemplifying self-improvement only suggests why his appeals to this philosophy resonated with ordinary Americans. Lincoln was speaking to their aspirations and hopes.
Self-Made in America explores the narrative arc of Lincoln's life in chronological sections that take visitors from his birth in the rudest of circumstances - a log cabin in Kentucky - to his tragic assassination and compelling journey home for burial in Illinois. The exhibition interweaves compelling texts with quotes, photographs and maps, facsimiles of one-of-a-kind manuscripts and documents from the Library's collections, reproduction artifacts made especially for the exhibition, a dramatization of Lincoln's 1861 Farewell Address, and the award-winning video The Civil War in Four Minutes. A brochure containing a timeline of Lincoln's life as well as suggested readings and information about the Library and Museum will be available to all visitors.
LINCOLN EXHIBIT PUBLIC HOURS
Saturday, May 31--------------10-6
Sunday, June 1-----------------10-6
Monday, June 2----------------Closed
Tuesday, June 3---------------10-6
Wednesday, June 4----------10-6
Thursday, June 5--------------10-6
Friday, June 6------------------10-6
Saturday, June 7--------------10-6
Sunday, June 8----------------10-6
Monday, June 9----------------10-6
Tuesday, June 10-------------Closed
Wednesday, June 11--------10-6
Thursday, June 12------------10-6
Friday, June 13----------------11-7 (Summer Serenade evening concert at 7)
Saturday, June 14------------10-6
Sunday, June 15--------------10-3
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