If you liked Abbott and Costello Meet the Mummy or Archie Meets the Punisher, you’ll love “Anne meets the Lincoln family”! This fall on C-SPAN 3!

Between the parking garage and the museum is a plaza whose features include A Greater Task, a 2004 sculpture by John W. McClarey,marking Lincoln’s February 1861 farewell address to Springfield before leaving for DC.

Acts of Intolerance, a 2009 two-piece work by Preston Jackson, commemorates the Springfield Race Riot of 1908.

The main building. Not quite the same sort of rotunda as the White House, but reminiscent.

Somehow it’s even bigger on the inside…

…big enough to contain its own White House. The Lincoln family waits outside for the movers to finish breaking stuff.

Our Hero’s secret origin begins more or less with Kid Lincoln contemplating the deeper meanings of a fable he’d just read.

Slightly older Lincoln reads indoors during the chillier season. At his feet, one of the many family dogs he’d know throughout his life.

Abe lays a “well actually” diatribe on his soon-to-be-ex-girlfriend. (The display names more than one of his old beaus.)

Abe and his future wife Mary Todd, having an off night during their awkward courting phase.

Of the Lincolns’ four sons in all, this was the original 1850 tombstone for 3-year-old Eddy, the first to die. He was reinterred at the Lincoln Tomb after it was built in 1865.

Your 1860 Presidential candidates, Honest Abe and Stephen A. Douglas, who previously beat him in the 1858 Illinois race for the U.S. Senate and Mr. Blackwell’s annual Best Vest list.

The Springfield 1860 directory has two listings for Lincoln, down at the right: one for his home and one for his law practice, the Lincoln/Herndon Office.

LINCOLN DEFEATS DOUGLAS! SCREW YOU, NEW JERSEY!

Not long after, the attack at Fort Sumter kicks off the Civil War. The museum represents it with a painting rather than a full-scale model exploding like a science-class volcano.

Of all the terrible things to deal with throughout the war, demeaning caricatures were the smallest of his worries.

Other politicians offered varying levels of support, uselessness, and/or antagonism — much like today’s careerists.

Lincoln ponders signing the Emancipation Proclamation. On each side of the hallway leading to him are ghost-like angry faces.

At no point does the Great Emancipator think to himself, “Which choice will get me the most Likes and the sweetest billionaire endorsements?”

An actual letter written by Lincoln in June 1863 to General Joseph Hooker, drafted for telegraphing, discussing Robert E. Lee’s imminent second invasion of the North.

November 19, 1863: the Gettysburg Address.

Fast-forward to 1865, and the war’s over and the North won! Now everyone can relax and enjoy some entertainment, like a nice play at Ford’s Theatre.

Failed actor John Wilkes Booth ends the night with tragedy, despite the efforts of millions of time travelers to stop him.

A replica of Lincoln’s funeral coffin.

Mary Todd Lincoln mourns.

Yes, of course they have a Lincoln bust — a prep piece for the 1908 version now in the U.S. Capitol. Its sculptor Gutzon Borglum is best known for such works as the dueling polar opposites Mount Rushmore and Stone Mountain.

Catch my upcoming sitcom Hangin’ with the Lincolns, this fall on Crackle!