March 4, 2008
In October 1999 the Colonel Eli Lilly Civil War Museum was opened in the lower level of the Indiana State Soldiers’ & Sailors’ Monument on Monument Circle in Indianapolis. In a very limited space (it was not really designed by Herr Schmitz for such a purpose) it brings the story of the Hoosiers in the Civil war and the builders of the monument to life. The visitor is taken step by step through various focus areas. By the time the visitor comes out Nikki Craig of Museum InterAction (the exhibit-design firm which developed the Museum for the Governor’s Hoosier Heritage Foundation), wants for him/her to look at the monument with very different eyes.
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