Our visit to the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Museum in Springfield, IL on Monday was a surprising disappointment.
The first exhibit we went to, “Ghosts of The Library”, features Disneyesque special-effects and is sponsored by AT&T. Other branded pablum followed, although the family portrait was unsponsored.
Maybe it’s because Lincoln is so famous, but we saw nothing that was new or particularly thought-provoking.
The house wasn’t much better. Everything in it was identified as a reproduction. The setting itself is a block-long Sturbridge Village-like recreation. 
But our last stop of the day was powerful. Lincoln’s tomb is majestic, somber and dignified. 
There are other Lincoln-related sights in downtown Springfield, including a statue with an inspirational message:
After Springfield, it was on to Iowa, through more and more cornfields, to the Herbert Hoover Library.