1. If you are interested in taking this special tour, please contact:
The Council of the District of Columbia invites Emancipation Day guests to attend a private Ford’s Theatre museum tour from 4:45 to 6p.m. on Friday, April 16th. Visitors will be provided a flyer by the Council so that they can check in with Ford’s Theatre Society staff when they enter the museum.  Ford’s Theatre Society will staff the museum in order to guide visitors and answer their questions.
The Ford’s Theatre Museum combines a remarkable collection of historic artifacts with a variety of interactive exhibits to tell the story of Abraham Lincoln’s presidency. Using environmental recreations, videos and three-dimensional figures, the museum transports visitors to 19th-century Washington, where they can follow Lincoln from his arrival in Washington in 1861.
Exhibits explore Lincoln’s Presidential cabinet, what life was like in the Lincoln White House, various Civil War milestones and generals, Lincoln’s great speeches and the Assassination conspiracy.
The collection of artifacts includes the deringer that John Wilkes Booth used, as well as a replica of the coat that President Lincoln wore the night he was shot.
If you are interested in taking this special tour, please contact:
Cynthia Brock-Smith
Secretary to the Council of the District of Columbia
1350 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW Suite 5
Washington, DC  20004
(202) (202) (fax)