The Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum is getting a financial boost from a Chicago-based organization. The Elizabeth Morse Genius Charitable Trust is granting the museum $100,000 dollars to help create an interpretive plan that will be used to shape museum exhibits and plans for decades to come.  The goal is to make the library and museum more relevant to a broader array of visitors.

Executive Director Christina Shutt says the grant will “go a long way toward ensuring the ALPLMs future is as exciting as its past.” The ALPLM intends to create an interpretive plan setting out the best ways to present Lincoln so that visitors see how his legacy remains relevant today. The grant also will pay for a museum expert to help conduct focus groups, hold workshops and write the interpretive plan.