Finding Lincoln | Exhibit Preview
Kathy has been hard at work prepping Finding Lincoln: 21st-Century Abe, our on-site exhibition. Opening next week, Finding Lincoln draws together all the wonderful artifacts and artistic responses from this site in real space. Additionally, we will be highlighting some of our favorite works and creations from site visitors.
The exhibition is split into two rooms. One room allows visitors the opportunity to view the selected Lincoln documents from the site with a view to connecting the themes throughout. To guide, Kathy has produced a podcast with our scholar, Douglas Wilson, offering some amazing insight and stories. If the document viewer has got you excited, now is your chance to get a little closer to Lincoln’s hand.
The second room features the artistic contributions of our project team. Original artwork from Maira Kalman, notes from Bryce Dessner and Archive, as well as some great photographs of 1812 Productions at work pepper the walls and cases. Here is where our visitor content sits as well, bringing the full experience of the site full circle.
In each space there is also a chance to hop on the computer and join the digital conversation.
Since putting together an exhibition can be a bit of a mystery, I thought I’d get a few shots of Kathy’s installation process to share. See more of those after the jump.
