Looking
history in the eye
Lincoln Presidential Library presents team
behind lifelike figures in ‘Evening with the Creators’
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[June 17, 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.
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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 (217) 558-8934.
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.
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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] |