Cruisin' with Lincoln on 66 Visitors Center

05/28/2026

Where in the world 🌎 are you from?! Our 2026 map is getting pinned; see where in the world our Bloomington guests call home 🗺️📍

05/21/2026

Our new card Game ‘Cruisin’ with Lincoln on Route 66’ is now available for purchase in our Visitors Center & Gift Shop! Get yours today!🎉

New Card Game "Cruisin’ with Lincoln on Route 66" debuts in Bloomington, celebrating Route 66 and U.S. anniversaries

05/02/2026

What an incredible Saturday at the McLean County Museum of History!! We’re so grateful to the hundreds of visitors who spent part of their day with us—it truly means a lot to see our community show up, connect, and create memories!!

04/30/2026

04/29/2026

A new, limited edition card game, Cruisin' with Lincoln on Route 66, will be available exclusively in the Cruisin' with Lincoln on 66 Visitor's Center.

Play your way through history and along the Mother Road in Illinois with a new, limited edition card game: Cruisin’ with Lincoln on 66. We partnered with one of our volunteers, who just so happens to be a professional board game creator, to bring this card game to life.Ben Rosset is an award-winni...

04/23/2026

A road trip along Route 66 deserves a keepsake to match. Reserve your limited-edition Red Carpet Corridor water bottle in advance and pick it up Friday, May 1 only in Joliet or at the McLean County Museum of History in Bloomington. Then spend the weekend collecting exclusive stickers at stops throughout the corridor, each one representing a different piece of the Mother Road story.

04/11/2026

Our Lincoln Bench got a glow-up from the artist himself, Rick Harney. Made of cast bronze, our midwest winters can be hard on Mr. Lincoln, but he looks brand new! Thanks to Norris Porter and Herb Eaton Studio and Gallery for providing Rick moral support.

04/04/2026

Funks Grove Pure Maple Sirup has been replenished and is now available for purchase!

02/25/2026

2026 Annual Survey of Museum-Goers.

02/16/2026

02/12/2026

Lincoln document on display at Museum today, tomorrow!

The Museum’s Archives collections include several documents in Lincoln’s own hand. For Abraham Lincoln’s birthday, the Museum will display today and tomorrow an authenticated Lincoln letter dated November 1, 1859. It was written from Springfield and sent to Kersey Fell of Bloomington, and it involved the negotiation of a payment to meet a court judgment. Lincoln scholar and retired Bloomington attorney Guy Fraker worked with Sharon Merwin of the Merwin Foundation, which agreed to purchase the letter on behalf of the museum in 2019. Come to the Museum’s second floor Library Reading Room and get up close and personal with this 167-year-old letter written by Mr. Lincoln himself!