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1.       What is a museum? What is the purpose of a museum?  2.       What is a mastodon? (TEXT, VIDEO) Were there ever any in Illinois? (TEXT, VIDEO) Are there any ones alive in Illinois now? (TEXT, VIDEO) What does extinct mean? Can you name any other animals that are extinct? Bears, wolves and bison used to live in the wild in Illinois, but not any longer. Are they extinct?  3.       What people lived in Illinois for hundreds of years before Lincoln? (TEXT, VIDEO) What would it have been like to live in a Native American village in Illinois 500 years ago? What would have been the best thing? What would have been the worst thing?  4.   What thing do you own that might be in a museum 100 years from now?