Feature Exhibits at the Museum:
Henry's Story: The Making of an Innovator takes the visitor on a journey through the highlights of Henry Ford's career and the process he took to become an innovator.
100 Years of the Automobile in American Life depicts the evolution of the automobile from a 19th century "newfangled contraption" to an icon of American culture.
Abraham Lincoln's Chair was once a fixture at the Ford Theater, the actual Rococo revival rocking chair the President was seated in when John Wilkes Booth drew his pistol and assassinated the 16th president.
Edgar Allan Poe's Writing Desk found a home here. Designed to be portable, the folding desk has handles and a top that swings down to form a flat writing surface. Have desk, will travel could have been the author's motto.
The Kennedy Limousine, the most photographed limo in history, takes the viewer back to 1961 on that infamous day in November.
And probably the most unusual exhibit, Thomas Edison's Last Breath, yes you heard right. Edison was a chemist, who kept a symbolic rack of test tubes on a table by his bed. Supposedly Edison's son Charles asked the attending physician, just before Edison died in 1931, to capture his father's last breath in a test tube, that was sealed with paraffin and given to Henry Ford.
Buckminster Fuller's Dymaxion House, to be completed in 2001, will go on display at the Henry Ford Museum. The most innovative house of the 20th century, made of aluminum alloy, round, and supported by a central mast promises to be a one-of-a-kind unveiling.
Greenfield Village features the changing landscape of America and allows history to come alive. Dressed in period customs the historic presenters encourage visitors to experience candle making, spinning, glassblowing, pottery, cooking, farming, and sheep shearing. Presenters dressed like Henry Ford, Orville and Wilbur Wright, and Thomas Alvin Edison can be found engaged in conversation with visitors. The village is made up of authentic representations of daily life in 18th, 19th, and early 20th Century. On display in the village visitors will see Edison's Menlo Park laboratory, Firestone Farms, Logan County Courthouse, Noah Webster's Home, Smiths Creek Depot, Henry Ford's Birthplace, Eagle Tavern, Horse-Drawn Carriages, Suwanee Riverboat, a 1913 Carousel, Wright Brother's Home, and Susquehanna Plantation.
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