Lincoln Heritage Museum named among top 30 university museums

[May 08, 2013]  The Lincoln Heritage Museum at Lincoln College has been named as one of the 30 "most amazing university museums" in the world, according to Best Colleges Online.

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."

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.