{"id":61614,"date":"2009-12-03T14:29:05","date_gmt":"2009-12-03T19:29:05","guid":{"rendered":"393 at http:\/\/atlasobscura.com"},"modified":"2009-12-03T14:29:05","modified_gmt":"2009-12-03T19:29:05","slug":"museum-of-funeral-customs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/61614","title":{"rendered":"Museum of Funeral Customs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/atlasobscura.com\/globe\/north-america\/us\/illinois\/sangamon-county\/springfield\">Springfield<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/atlasobscura.com\/globe\/north-america\/us\/illinois\">Illinois<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/atlasobscura.com\/categories\/museums-and-collections\">Museums and Collections<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Near the Oak Ridge Cemetery, the second most visited cemetery in the United States and the site of Abraham Lincoln&#8217;s tomb, lies the Springfield Museum of Funeral Customs. The museum houses a bizarre collection aimed at educating visitors about the history of funeral customs and practices in the United States, with a special emphasis on the 1800s and Lincoln.<\/p>\n<p>The museum&#8217;s collection features a handful of beautiful replicas, including the caskets of Lincoln, Kennedy and Nixon as well as a home funeral from the 1870s and an embalming room from the 1920s. Other exhibits include horse-drawn hearses, clothing, jewelry, instruments, photography and of course, a wide variety of caskets and coffins.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/static.atlasobscura.com\/files\/imagecache\/place_main\/place_images\/800px-Funeral_Carriage.JPG\" alt=\"\" title=\"\"  width=\"280\" height=\"187\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Springfield, Illinois | Museums and Collections Near the Oak Ridge Cemetery, the second most visited cemetery in the United States and the site of Abraham Lincoln&#8217;s tomb, lies the Springfield Museum of Funeral Customs. The museum houses a bizarre collection aimed at educating visitors about the history of funeral customs and practices in the United [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":217,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61614","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/217"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61614"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61614\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}