Currently on display at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art is the coat worn by President Lincoln on the night he was assassinated at Ford's Theatre – a treasured object that speaks to tragedy in our nation's history.
While some arrivals at this year's Met Gala at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City were greeted with a lot of fanfare, one treasured object arrived undercover, amid great secrecy, from a museum warehouse outside Washington, D.C.: the coat that Abraham Lincoln was wearing on April 14, 1865, the night he was assassinated at Ford's Theatre. It arrived with a police escort.
Prepared for display at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art is the coat worn by President Lincoln on the night he was assassinated at Ford's Theatre - a treasured object that speaks to tragedy in our nation's history.The coat is part of the Met's new exhibit,"In America: An Anthology of Fashion," which illuminates the complex history of our country through clothing
The coat, created by Brooks Brothers for Lincoln's second inauguration, has never before left the D.C. area, and is rarely shown to the public in order to protect its fragile nature.
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