Eats

One more compare and contrast.

The lunch room at the Lincoln Presidential Museum is like many museum or hospital lunch rooms, with a selection of sandwiches, soups, etc. and a cashier at the end of the line. Getting a meal is not quite as fast as a fast foot operation but nearly so, and prices are commensurate. The entire museum operation including the lunch room depends on volunteers. The museum volunteers and staff are identified by shirts and name tags. The lunch room can cope with school groups of a couple dozen or so -- and anticipates such groups especially in spring.

The Clinton Presidential Museum dining facility is a notch or two up the scale. You are seated, order from a menu, and have a choice of offerings prepared by a chef. The wait staff wear elegant black and white uniforms. Prices are about what you'd expect for the level of presentation, and the dining experience is paced likewise. In nice weather the dining area includes an outdoor area overlooking the Arkansas River. The service would be hard put to deal with a group of a dozen or more arriving unannounced.

One more contrast -- and this may have more to do with one being part of the Federal Presidential Libraries and Museums bureaucracy -- the Lincoln Presidential Museum does not have a security portal with metal detector & scanning equipment but the Clinton Presidential Center does. Not quite at the level of airport security but enough that a replacement knee joint triggers the alarm and requires an explanation.