Lincoln's Legacy
/The event will be held at the museum complex. For more questions call or email us!
Thank you.
- Museum Staff
The event will be held at the museum complex. For more questions call or email us!
Thank you.
- Museum Staff
The Macon County History Museum has extended its reopening date until March 21 in order to finish off renovations to the rest of the museum and get new carpeting installed. We apologize for this inconvenience. Thank you for your understanding.
- The MCHM Staff
The Macon County History Museum will be closed until February 28. We will be working on doing further renovations to the lower museum, additional painting, new exhibits, as well as archival and collections work. Larger groups may be scheduled by appointment if the times work, but part of the museum may not be accessible depending on the time period.
Thank you.
- Museum Staff
Local blacksmith Steve Knowles will show adults and children alike how to do basic blacksmithing in the museum’s Prairie Village blacksmith shop. He will make items in the blacksmith shop forge and illuminate visitors on the skill of blacksmithing and its importance to our history. We restored the shop last fall and early this spring so it will be in use for the last time this year with various events to be scheduled next year.
Date: November 19
Time: 1:00 – 3:00 pm
Place: Macon County History Museum
5580 North Fork Road
Decatur, IL62521
Cost: $2 admission fee
Phrenology in the 19th Century was the belief that a person’s abilities could be determined by the shape of one’s skull and the size of the “bumps” thereon. Thoroughly discounted by science today, phrenology was proscribed to be a true science by most intellectuals of the time. It is estimated that over 2,000 “Practical Phrenologists” had set out across America to read the heads –“having their heads examined,” of a population eager to better themselves. Prof. Phineas Fairhead P.P. a.k.a. Lee Slider will provide an entertaining lecture on this little known aspect of 19th Century popular culture.
Date: Saturday, August 20
Time: 1:30 PM
Macon County History Museum
217.422.4919
5580 North Fork Road.
Cost: $2 admission fee
The Macon County History Museum will be closed through the month of January for maintenance, construction, and archival work.
Thank you for your patience.
- MCHM Staff
Guest Speaker: Don Chamberlain
Attention, the MCHM will be closed from September 10th through September 15th. Thank You.
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