Lincoln Exhibit Arrives Two Days Early

An exhibit about Abraham Lincoln, slated to open Friday, arrived two days early in Danville Wednesday.

Abraham Lincoln: Self Made in America is on display at the Museum of the San Ramon Valley starting today, April 7 until May 7.

See a video preview of the exhibit here.

On loan from the Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum in Springfield, Illinois, the exhibit chronicles Lincoln's personal life, career as a lawyer, key events from his presidency and assassination in 1865.

Learning stations in the exhibit teach visitors about Lincoln through reproduction artifacts, including his stovepipe hat and the bloody gloves found after his assassination. An original photograph of Lincoln and his son, on loan from a Danville resident, is unique to the Danville exhibit.

The museum will have extra hours for visitors to see the exhibit. Starting Friday it will be open Tuesday to Friday from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., Saturday 1 p.m. to 2 p.m. and Sunday 12 p.m. to 3 p.m. Entrance fees are $3 for adults, $5 for a family, $2 for students and $1 for children.

The exhibit is traveling until the end of the year and will head to Tillamook, Oregon after its stop in Danville.

In honor of the exhibit this month, several visits by Lincoln and other historical events are scheduled including talks and civil war reenactments, listed below.

Interpretive programs included with Museum of the San Ramon Valley admission:

• April 10 | Visit of Mary Todd Lincoln
• April 11  | Meet Mr. Lincoln
• April 17 | Lincoln's Fighting Generals:  How Politics and Strategy Collided
• April 18 | Lincoln's Fighting Generals:  How Politics and Strategy Collided
• April 24 | Meet Mr. Lincoln
• April 25 | Meet Mr. Lincoln
• May 1 | Meet Mr. Lincoln
• May 2 | Charlie Jenkins and the California 100

Special programs in Danville, Alamo and San Ramon:

April 15  | 7:30 p.m. |  Now He Belongs to the Ages
Museum of the San Ramon Valley
On the anniversary of Lincoln's Death this event will include poem readings, champagne and strawberries.
Reservations required call 925 837-3750 or e-mail info@museumsrv.org
$10 entrance fee

April 23 | 7:00 p.m. |  Mary Todd Lincoln: First Lady of Controversy
Read Bookstore
Past Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum docent, Jean Blaser, will give a presentation about former First Lady, Mary Todd Lincoln.

April 24 | 10 a.m. to 4  p.m. | Civil War Reenactment
Forest Home Farms, San Ramon
$7 at the door, $5 if you pre-register
Kids under 2 get in free.

April 24 | 7:00 p.m. | Twilight Cemetery Tour
Alamo Cemetery
Twilight Cemetery Tour of Alamo Cemetery with historic figures talking about life in the 1860s.
Groups should call the museum at 925 837-3750, for details.
$3 entrance fee

May 16 | 2 p.m. | Strawberry Party with the First Lady
Museum of the San Ramon Valley
Reservations required, call 925 837-3750 or e-mail info@museumsrv.org.
$5 entrance fee