Looking history in the eye
Lincoln Presidential Library presents team behind lifelike figures in ‘Evening with the Creators’
 

[June 11, 2015]  SPRINGFIELD – It’s a powerful experience when history looks you right in the eye. The Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum provides that experience again and again with its incredibly lifelike figures of Lincoln, his family and his contemporaries.

The team that designed and built those 49 figures will explain their amazing work June 18 in the latest “Evening with the Creators” event, part of the museum’s 10th anniversary.

The experts from LifeFormations have exciting plans for their return to the library and museum. They will demonstrate how the hair and eyes go into their figures. They’ll pass around props. They’ll even do a live casting of an audience member’s hand, and that person gets to take it home.

The event begins at 6:30 p.m., and it will be followed by a “meet the creators” reception. Tickets are just $12.50 for the general public or $11.25 for museum members. Visit www.PresidentLincoln.Illinois.gov and click on “special event reservations” or call [phone].

The life figures have become a signature part of the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum.

Hundreds of thousands of people have posed with the Lincoln family in the museum’s main plaza. A scene portraying a family torn apart at a slave auction drives home the horrors of slavery. A weeping Mary Lincoln reminds visitors of her painful losses as a wife and mother.

 

The Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum holds an unparalleled collection of Lincoln documents, photographs, artifacts and art. It also has some 12 million items pertaining to all aspects of Illinois history, making the library one of the nation’s leading institutions for genealogy and history research.

The museum is celebrating its 10th anniversary this year. For information on all our events, visit www.TenYearsLincoln.com.

[Chris Wills, Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum]