Museum of Funeral Customs, Former death education museum in Springfield, US
The museum contained a complete 1920s embalming room with period instruments, coffin displays, and authentic funeral artifacts from different historical periods.
Located near Oak Ridge Cemetery and Abraham Lincoln's tomb, the museum displayed a scale model of Lincoln's funeral train and presidential burial customs.
Collections included post-mortem photographs, mourning garments, and funeral items that illustrated American bereavement practices from the 1800s onward.
The facility closed in 2009, and its collection moved to the Kibbe Hancock Heritage Museum in Carthage, Illinois in February 2011.
Visitors could examine horse-drawn hearses, casket replicas of notable figures, and purchase coffin-shaped merchandise in the museum shop.
Location: Illinois
GPS coordinates: 39.81998,-89.65346
Latest update: March 3, 2025 15:28
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