Best museum, friendly staff, and lots of interesting artifacts , learned a lot as a history buffread more

The Lincoln Heritage Museum is an absolute gem and well worth a family visit!…read more The facility is tucked away on Nicholson Road, almost out of sight behind Lincoln College in Lincoln, Illinois. Take the time to find it - you'll be delighted with your discovery. Plan to give the Museum the time it deserves - to get the most from your visit you'll need an hour and a half. The exhibits chronicle the life and times of Abraham Lincoln, from his early childhood through his years as President. Every display is "kid friendly" - your children will enjoy handling genuine historical artifacts of the period and will get a huge kick out of the Museum's multi-media presentations. Many of the exhibits put the viewer right into the middle of the action; you really feel as if you are on the scene as the events unfold. The staff is friendly and helpful and admission fees are very reasonable. You'll even find a well stocked gift shop - a great place for thoughtful birthday or holiday gifts. What are you waiting for??? SEE the LINCOLN HERITAGE MUSEUM!!!

Adorable little shopping location for the kiddos! The staff help me pick out a gift for the kid I…read moream babysitting. Shoutout to employees for going above and beyond!

My daughter LOVES it here. It's most definitely worth the drive and fun in the summer time to stay…read morecool!

The Route 66 Museum is great and close to the other attractions in Atlanta. There is a pride in…read moretheir history that shows. Every one we spoke with at every stop in town was kind and knowledgeable.

It has been celebrated in song, story, poem, and yes, even a Route 66 TV show (1960-1964); historic…read moreU.S. Route 66 was established in 1926 and ran east-west across the central United States. According to the popular song "Route 66" by John Mayer "...it winds from Chicago to LA, more than two thousand miles all the way". 2448 miles or 3,940 KM to be precise. Tourist attractions designed to get a motorist to take a break from their journey (and spend some cash) along "the mother road" or the "main street of America" are scattered here and there among the small towns that are found along Route 66. One of these attractions is the Route 66 Arcade Museum located in the prototypical small town of Atlanta, IL. At the Route 66 Arcade Museum it is possible to misspend your youth all over again; one quarter at a time! The Museum is chock full of vintage pinball and video games from the 1930's-1970's. The Route 66 Arcade Museum is only open during the tourist season April through September. The museum is opened and closed by a third party but is usually open from 9am 4pm in season. Hours are currently impacted by IL state COVID-19 regulations for entertainment businesses so please check before your visit.

The museum is 20 years old & is being renovated. The theater was closed…read more We started by walking through Lincoln's early years starting in his log cabin. We saw his law office. We moved through his campaign & debate. We visited his White House & we were in the midst of the turbulent times he faced. We ended in Ford's Theater, his funeral & tomb. I didn't realize that the funeral train took 15 days and more people saw him as a dead president then as a live candidate. We spent time admiring Lincoln's 40,000 artifacts. Here we saw his personal items, Mary's clothes, the Emancipation Proclamation, correspondences, The New hologram film from the library was beautifully done. The gift shop was enormous and fabulous.

This was one of the better museums I've been to. My wife and I enjoyed it a great deal…read more The staff here is very friendly and helpful. The museum has a couple of good movies to watch, including "The Eyes of Lincoln". There's also a very cool holographic experience. The museum is celebrating 20 years now in 2025. The gift shop is cavernous and well stocked. You can skip the café, it's not worth it. They are supposedly open until three, but don't serve anything hot after 1 PM. Kind of silly. You can go through the museum in two hours or spend all day here. There is a ton to read and look at. So many amazing Civil War, pictures, and descriptions. This museum is truly spectacular and worthy of our greatest president! I highly recommend it.

I highly recommend this place. The most that games cost is 75 cents. A majority of them cost 50…read morecents. They have the Starwars Trilogy Arcade from the 90's, Ferrari F355 Challenge that uses a lifelike gear box and a clutch pedal, and many more. My kids and I had a blast.

Always a fun time. We love playing all the old school arcade games, bring back so many 80's…read more memories.

Great museum that offers three spaces in one location. Enjoy space, art and history. My tip is…read morewatch a movie be sure to check out what is playing.

This is a nice little museum, I particularly enjoyed the Bronzeville to Harlem exhibit. That was…read morespectacular. We also went to the Planetarium and saw the what is in tonight's sky show and it was great. There was also a little concert outside before noon, which must have been a local school's jazz band and maybe small string orchestra. That was fun as well

Super quaint little exploration center for kids in Peoria is great! It's small enough to be easy to…read morenavigate. Lots for the kids to do and plenty of benches for caregivers to sit. The air exhibit was particularly fun for our 3.5 year old. Tickets are easy to purchase and very low priced. Well worth the price! It wasn't too busy so we kind of had the run of the place. 10/10 would take the family back!

Awesome, my granddaughter suggested going here, so did my youngest grandson. My middle grandson was…read moreagainst. We took him anyway. They ended up loving it. He was a crafting up bricks, using machines, and used the craft room while my eldest helped with the glue gun. My youngest was all interested and water, farm area, fossil sand section, and crafting area, while my eldest liked the mini village, science room, and crafting area. They all spent the most time at the ball area doing a " Harvest festival" which I watched and thought was adorable. Although the shop was not the most affordable... They had cute stuffed animals ( that we didn't buy) But I bought them small goodies, Eldest and middle got magnifying lenses, while my youngest got a small dinosaur. I was a person who was on the edge of going, But I even had fun! It proves that there is something for everyone here!!

We reserved a free tour at Eventbrite. Jennifer brought 15 of us through this massive, historic…read morehome. She pointed out specific pieces, told stories about the owners & was very knowledgeable about Frank Lloyd Wrights work. We started our tour with a brief video about the glass work. We went into several sitting areas, Dana's bedroom, nursery, dining room, pantry & kitchen.library, bowling alley & billiards room. The 3rd largest home Frank Lloyd Wright ever designed. this remarkably preserve Prairie School icon dates from 1902 until 1904. It's more interesting than his home in Oak Park. The 16 floor home was considered experimental with a duckpin bowling alley & 2 barrel vaulted ceiling's. There is exquisite color shifting art glass & 90% of the furniture is original. Susan Lawrence Dana (1862-1946) was an heiress to a silver mines fortune . She was widow in 1900 & had complete control over her household & fortune. She was a leading philanthropic figure in Springfield. Dana decided to completely remodeled her home commissioning Frank Lloyd Wright. Her new home reflected her flamboyant personality & was designed for display & entertainment. The concept of "expanding space" was evident throughout the house with windows placed to continually draw the attention to the outside. Wright designed approximately 450 art glass windows, skylights, door panels, sconces & light fixtures for the house. The interior Torii gates are magnificent.hallway into two of the largest rooms in the house. The musical gallery for entertaining and the library contains special easels. Wright designed white oak furniture for Dana to display Japanese prints. In1928, Dana had dementia & financial constraints. In1944, the home and its contents were sold to Charles C. Thomas, a medical publisher. Thomas lived here & used this home as his publishing company. He sold the house to the state for a million dollars. It became a historic site. Jennifer shared that the house is still being utilized for social community events.

This was so cool! What an amazing experience! This was my first Wright house, and I'm not sure it…read morecan be topped! I understand why photos aren't allowed inside, but I was expecting more postcards depicting the various rooms to be available in the gift shop. There was cool stuff, for sure, but more postcards of the interior would be great since photos aren't allowed. My tour guide was Allicent and she did a great job talking about all the artistic and architectural features of the home. There was also a video at the beginning about the manufacture of some of the glass. I was sorry that the intro video didn't tell us more about the historical and social context of Mrs Dana, but I imagine most visitors would be more interested in the architectural technique. My only complaint with my tour is that there were two little kids on it. They were like 3 and 5. They were totally distracting the whole time--talking, whining, trying to grab at things. I'm not sure why the museum has such strict rules about other things but also allows in kids under 12. There's nothing they could possibly glean from the tour. It's really not designed for kids. Nor should it be!

Another five star review. There are three museums to tour here: the house; the rock and gem museum;…read moreand apparently the farm tools. Figure an hour per museum; I only had time for two. The docent lives on-site and is passionate about the Funk family; there was almost too much information about the family (perhaps as I was touring the house with two Funk family members in town for a reunion). I've toured a lot of Victorian houses, but one of the things that's interesting about this one is the amount of innovation you'll see highlighted here. This starts in the garden, where there is a small power plant (the farm had electricity in the early 1900s, before parts of Chicago), and is continued as you learn to know the family, whether they be inventors of hybrid seeds, or rock afficianados. Unlike many houses, here you can get close to things; there are no velvet ropes or plastic barriers, except one to keep you out of the servants' stairs. So you can look close up at the hat pins or beaded bags on the dressers. Ask questions - you can't stump this docent. (We had a discussion about concrete and its use in the fence and the caretaker's building which was really quite interesting. If you have engineer friends, they will love this tour.) The rock museum features some truly impressive fossils, some of which you might be allowed to touch! There's a dragonfly fossilized in ash; coprolite (look it up), and dinosaur bone (apparently fairly common?). There's a whole wall of different types of calcite; giant gorgeous blue and purple fluorite specimens; lit-from-the-back beautiful agates and rubies in zoisite; and in the NEXT room (!) two or three cabinets of beautiful Chinese carved soapstone, and a collection of sleighs. The finale is a cabinet full of fluorescing rocks, including melted glass from a nuclear reactor. Made me wish this museum had a gift shop, though the docent will be happy to give you recommendations for good local rock shops. This is a really great museum hidden in the cornfields. Worth a trip - I drove two hours to get here, thinking I was coming for the rocks, but the house was almost/ just as good.

Totally recommended - A wonderfully preserved house and grounds and our guide was able to bring the…read morewhole place to life with his insight and knowledge of the Funk family and their incredible history - and then in the Gem Museum we saw further dimensions to him as he walked us through this small fragment ( 20% ) of the massive and impressive collection gathered from all corners of the World.

This museum is now called the Air Combat museum. It's located in a nondescript, small hanger at the…read moreairport. It has a small, but amazing collection of aircraft. We stopped by on a Friday afternoon and were the only visitors. Christopher took his time telling us about several of the aircraft. We learned so much! Don't miss this free museum if you have any interest in aircraft!

This is a small private collection. But there are a couple…read moreof pieces such as a corsair and a P51 mustang that make it worth the visit.