Harold Holzer, a scholar of Abraham Lincoln and faculty member at Hunter College, reviewed the new Lincoln Memorial Museum for the Wall Street Journal. Titled “The Lincoln Memorial Undercroft: A Monumental Foundation,” the piece names the museum “one of Washington’s most breathtaking attractions.”

Holzer appreciates that, in addition to its exhibits about the memorial’s construction and place in American history, the museum provides views into the undercroft—the cavernous space underneath the memorial—and that its “thick pillars and huge arches remain fully visible at eye level.”

The new Lincoln Memorial undercroft is more than a tribute to an engineering marvel; it is a reminder that even iconic monuments must evolve over time, none as meaningfully as this one has.

HAROLD HOLZER

Read the full piece here.