1 Trending: Leftists Are Still Openly Mocking Charlie Kirk’s Assassination Because They Love Violence

2 Trending: Homelessness Non-Profits Are Killing Los Angeles

3 Trending: Federal Judge Reinstates Missouri’s New Election Map After Kavanaugh Declines To Get Involved

4 Trending: China’s Censorship Of Tibet Flooding Proves Again The CCP Can’t Be Trusted

New Lincoln Memorial Museum Is Beautiful But Misses The Point

The exhibits not only fail to discuss Lincoln’s life but also the most important question of all: Why? Why this memorial to this president?

Share Article on Facebook

Share Article on Twitter

Share Article on Truth Social

Share Article via Email

Normally, opening one’s basement to visitors wouldn’t spark national headlines. But when the basement in question provides architecturally striking views of one of the country’s great memorials, the press and the public make an exception.

Opened mere days before America officially celebrated its 250th birthday, the Lincoln Memorial undercroft tour allows visitors to explore a previously closed section of the monumental tribute to our nation’s 16th president. While the tour gives unique views of the memorial’s structure and construction, the accompanying exhibits collectively understate the impact of the “Great Emancipator” on America’s culture and psyche.

The undercroft’s basic ingredients might not sound glamorous: 122 concrete pillars. The pillars sink down into bedrock, below the tidal marshlands that used to be part of the Potomac River, to support the temple-like memorial structure and statue of Lincoln above. 

But the space manages to look vast yet intimate. Vast because of the undercroft’s great size — the visitor space totals 15,000 square feet, yet comprises only a small amount of the area’s total volume, which extends far below visitors’ feet. But intimate because of the details on display: the rough texture of the columns, which results from the wooden molds into which the 1910s workers poured concrete, and the graffiti drawn on those columns by those original workers, some of which are reproduced on the walls of the........

© The Federalist