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20. Abraham Lincoln Library and Museum

Dedicated to the life and legacy of our 16th president, the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum brings together the world’s largest collection of documentary material related to the life of Lincoln.

The Museum is easy to locate with an inexpensive parking garage across the street. The old Railroad Depot is also directly across the street from the Museum and the parking garage. The Library is another block in the right-central portion of the left two images above as you are walking by the Museum. An admission fee to the Museum includes access to many Lincoln artifacts, short videos, dioramas, and a gift shop. Combining scholarship and showmanship, the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Museum uses 21st century technology to immerse visitors in the world of gas lamps and hoop skirts – Lincoln’s world.

Your Lincoln experience begins as you:

• Visit the rustic Indiana cabin the young Lincoln called home,
• Travel with Lincoln down the Mississippi to New Orleans and confront the horrors of slavery as a family is torn apart on an auction block,
• Enter a modern-day television control room to see campaign commercials interpreting the complicated presidential election of 1860,
• Step into the Blue Room at the White House to meet Mary Todd Lincoln at the dawn of four tragic years,
• Listen to black servants gossiping in the White House kitchen about the possibility of emancipation,
• Experience the Civil War in four minutes as you watch the movements armies North and South, synchronized to the mounting casualties on both sides,
• Join the Lincolns in their box at Ford’s Theatre, and share in the grief of thousands of ordinary Americans filing by Lincoln’s casket in the Spring of 1865. 
  (taken from the Springfield Convention & Visitors Bureau Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum website)