Museum of Funeral Customs

The museum was near Oak Ridge Cemetery, the site of Abraham Lincoln's tomb.

Collections at the museum included a re-created 1920s embalming room, coffins and funeral paraphernalia from various cultures and times, examples of post-mortem photography, and a scale model of Lincoln's funeral train.

The museum hosted tours and special events, and provided resources to scholars who were researching funeral customs.

It was closed in March 2009 due to poor attendance and handling of the museum's trust fund.

[1][2] The contents of the collection were transferred to the Kibbe Hancock Heritage Museum in Carthage, Illinois, in February 2011.