Tom Morrow
07-05-2007, 07:31 PM
Disney Imagineers consulted on Lincoln Museum
How To Design a Lincoln Museum (http://www.slate.com/id/2169527/)
Step 1: Ask Disney for advice.
Step 2: Build a roller coaster?
Slate Magazine
In his new book, Land of Lincoln: Adventures in Abe's America, Andrew Ferguson crisscrosses the nation on a quest to understand our ongoing obsession with our lanky 16th president. In this excerpt, Ferguson explains how and why the state of Illinois hired Disney-style theme-park designers to develop the new Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum, the most ambitious (and expensive) attempt to bring Lincoln to the wider public since the opening of the Lincoln Memorial in 1922.
complete article (http://www.slate.com/id/2169527/)
Sent from Ezra (http://www.visionsfantastic.com/forum/z/Ezra/)
How To Design a Lincoln Museum (http://www.slate.com/id/2169527/)
Step 1: Ask Disney for advice.
Step 2: Build a roller coaster?
Slate Magazine
In his new book, Land of Lincoln: Adventures in Abe's America, Andrew Ferguson crisscrosses the nation on a quest to understand our ongoing obsession with our lanky 16th president. In this excerpt, Ferguson explains how and why the state of Illinois hired Disney-style theme-park designers to develop the new Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum, the most ambitious (and expensive) attempt to bring Lincoln to the wider public since the opening of the Lincoln Memorial in 1922.
complete article (http://www.slate.com/id/2169527/)
Sent from Ezra (http://www.visionsfantastic.com/forum/z/Ezra/)