 Jennifer Carson, a representative of Best Colleges Online, noted in
her announcement to the Lincoln Heritage Museum that, in preparing
this recent list, the editors reviewed information on hundreds of
museums around the world and selected the 30 they deemed most
outstanding.According to the Best Colleges Online website, the
Lincoln Heritage Museum was included because of the strength of its
collection and how it "preserves artifacts related to the life and
presidency of Abraham Lincoln." The editors for the site identified
the "objects from Lincoln's home, books and other personal
possessions of Lincoln, and a one-of-a-kind handmade campaign
banner" as some of the museum's most prominent attributes.
Ron Keller, director of the Lincoln Heritage Museum, commented
that this recognition is significant.
"One must consider that according to Lynn Marsden-Atlass,
secretary for the Association of Academic Museums and Galleries,
there are in the United States alone an estimated 3,000 college and
university museums. That number is surely tripled when accounting
for museums outside our nation's borders. That makes the
acknowledgment of our museum quite noteworthy," Keller said.
Anne Moseley, assistant director of the museum commented: "We are
honored to be among the many museums that have made an impact on the
students and visitors to our campus. We will continue this in the
new museum as we educate individuals on the life, the legacy and the
character of Abraham Lincoln. Our significance is recognized now.
Once we are in the new museum this fall, our impact and recognition
will be even greater."
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The top 30 list includes American and international museums,
including the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and
Anthropology; the Harvard Museum of Natural History; the U.S. Naval
War College Museum; the Museum of Anthropology in British Columbia,
Canada; the Macquarie University Museum in Sydney, Australia; the
Beth Hatefutsoth Museum in Tel Aviv University, Israel; the Kyoto
Museum for World Peace, in Kyoto, Japan; the Grassi Museum fur
Musikinstrumente (Museum of Musical Instruments) at the University
of Leipzig, Germany; the Natural History Museum of Denmark at
University of Copenhagen, Denmark; and the Asia University Museum of
Art in Taipei, China. The full ranking of the 30 most amazing
university museums is available at
www.bestcollegesonline.org.
Best Colleges Online is an organization that surveys the nation's
top online schools and degree programs, and provides career how-to
guides, information about the benefits and advantages of online
degrees, and other information on universities around the world. The
editors regularly provide "top 10" rankings on many elements of
college offerings.
The Lincoln Heritage Museum is open 9 to 4 Monday through Friday,
and from 1 to 4 p.m. on Saturdays. Admission is free.
[Text from file received from
Lincoln College]
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