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Illinois Hotel 401 E Washington St 1903 Illinois State Armory 107/111 E Monroe St 1936 Art Deco Illinois State Capitol: 2nd & Capitol 1868 - 1888 Renaissance Revival,Second Empire: November 21, 1985 Jessie K. DuBois House 519 S 8th St The INB Center The CILCO Building 322 E Capitol Ave 1924 Classical Revival, Beaux Arts James Morse House
Print/export Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects ... Help. Pages in category "Museums in Springfield, Illinois" The following 13 pages are in this ...
The Illinois State Museum was founded on May 25, 1877, as a showcase within the sixth Illinois State Capitol in Springfield, which was completed at that time. Amos Henry Worthen was first curator. As the state's government grew, the museum collection was moved from the Capitol Building to the newly constructed Centennial Building, now known as ...
The museum celebrates the African-American history of Central Illinois. Exhibits and presentations include the presence of quasi-legal slavery in pioneer Springfield starting in 1819, the founding of the Pike County free village of New Philadelphia in 1836, and the construction of the Lincoln Colored Old Folks and Orphans Home in 1904. The ...
This list of museums in Illinois contains museums which are defined for this context as institutions (including nonprofit organizations, government entities, and private businesses) that collect and care for objects of cultural, artistic, scientific, or historical interest and make their collections or related exhibits available for public viewing.
Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum at Springfield, Illinois The museum contains life-size dioramas of Lincoln's boyhood home, [ 2 ] areas of the White House , the presidential box at Ford's Theatre , and the settings of key events in Lincoln's life, as well as pictures, artifacts and other memorabilia. [ 3 ]
Toggle the table of contents ... Print/export Download as PDF ... The Air Combat Museum is an aviation museum located at the Abraham Lincoln Capital Airport in ...
The Springfield Museum bought the painting from Lucerne though an art dealer in 1955. Although the painting was known to be in Springfield by the 1960s, the difficulty of determining whether it was the original painting delayed any possible repatriation. In the late 1990s, Italy began pursuing repatriation, which the museum agreed to.