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Friday, December 12, 2008
Ind. Gov't. - "State group appears victor for Lincoln Museum items"
Updating a long list of earlier ILB entries, Angela Mapes Turner of the Fort Wayne Journal Gazette is reporting this morning:
Announcements scheduled in Indianapolis and Fort Wayne today suggest that the defunct Lincoln Museum’s collection will remain in Indiana.The Lincoln Financial Foundation has conducted a secretive search process for a home for the collection since the Fort Wayne museum closed in June. The foundation, which did not have a comment late Thursday, has said it plans to announce a home for the collection late this year or early 2009.
Media events are scheduled for 11 a.m. today at the Indiana State Museum and 3 p.m. at the Allen County Public Library related to a “major acquisition,” said Kathi Moore, a spokeswoman for the Indianapolis museum. She would not say whether the events were related to the Lincoln collection or give further details.
The State Museum and the library are the major players in the Indiana coalition that is a finalist to land the $20 million artifact collection. The coalition includes support of the Indiana Historical Society, Indiana State Library and Friends of the Lincoln Museum. * * *
At least one more finalist for the collection remained as of October – the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum in Springfield, Ill. David Blanchette, spokesman for the Springfield museum, declined to comment on the search process late Thursday.
Posted by Marcia Oddi on December 12, 2008 08:14 AM
Posted to Indiana Government