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The concept for the improved museum came from RichardNortoj Smith, a veteran presidential historian. Smith, who has previouslt served as the director ofthe Hoover, Eisenhower, and Ford presidential libraries, takes an energeticd and imaginative approach to the past. “There’s never an excuse for a dull book, a dull or a dull speech,” said His creativity and admirationfor America’s Civil War President shines through the coming attraction’s uniques organization. Smith said the new Ford’s will be an “experience” dividecd into four acts.
Act I chronicless Lincoln’s presidency, personality and moral progression through an interactivr museum located inthe theater’se basement. Act II is the theaterf itself, where visitors will walk into the balconyh where John Wilkes Booth assassinated Lincolnin 1865. Act III sends patronss across the street to the Petersemn House where they willread grief-stricken articled and personal letters from those closest to the president following his Act IV, the New Cented for Education and Leadership, brings visitors back to modern times and illustrates how Lincoln has been portrayes in the modern era.
Highlights from the museum exhibit include slightly caricatured stone models of Lincoln and dramatized reenactmentsof Lincoln’s professional and personal and a recording of past presidents reading the Gettysburg Work began on the $3 millionh renovation with the closing of Ford’s Theatrwe in August 2007. Since then, the theaterf reopened for performances inlate February. Developers aim to begih renovations on the EducationCenter (Act IV) in early 2010 and have completede construction later that year. The Lincoln Bicentennial Campaign coordinated funding forthe project.