Museum of Funeral Customs

Early embalming fluid

The Museum of Funeral Customs is located at 144 Monument Ave. in Springfield, Illinois, USA. It features exhibits dealing with American funerary and mourning customs. The museum is near Oak Ridge Cemetery, the site of Abraham Lincoln's tomb. Jump to: navigation, search Embalming, in most modern cultures, is the art and science used to temporarily preserve human remains to forestall decomposition and make it suitable for display at a funeral. ... Location in Illinois Founded  -Incorporated 1819 {{{incorporated}}}  County Sangamon County Mayor Timothy Davlin Area  - Total  - Water 156. ... Jump to: navigation, search Underwater funeral in Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea A funeral is a ceremony marking a persons death. ... Mourning is in the simplest sense synonymous with grief over the death of a friend or relative. ... A museum is typically a non-profit, permanent institution in the service of society and of its development, open to the public, which acquires, conserves, researches, communicates and exhibits, for purposes of study, education enjoyment, the tangible and intangible evidence of people and their environment. ... Categories: Stub ... Jump to: navigation, search Abraham Lincoln (February 12, 1809 – April 15, 1865), sometimes called Abe Lincoln and nicknamed Honest Abe, the Rail Splitter, and the Great Emancipator, was the 16th President of the United States (1861 to 1865), and the first president from the Republican Party. ... Abraham Lincolns tomb at Oakridge Cemetery. ...

Collections at the museum include a re-created 1920s embalming room; coffins and funeral paraphrenalia from various cultures and times; examples of post-mortem photography; and a scale model of Lincoln's funeral train. Jump to: navigation, search Sometimes referred to as the Jazz Age or primarily in North America as the Roaring Twenties . In Europe it is sometimes refered to as the Golden Twenties. ... Jump to: navigation, search Embalming, in most modern cultures, is the art and science used to temporarily preserve human remains to forestall decomposition and make it suitable for display at a funeral. ... An open casket A coffin (which some call a casket) is a box used for the display and burial or cremation of a cadaver. ...

The museum hosts tours and special events, and provides resources to scholars who are researching funeral customs. A gift shop provides books and funeral-related gifts, inlcuding coffin-shaped keychains and chocolates. Jump to: navigation, search Look up book on Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ...

External Links

• Museum of Funeral Customs homepage