Museum of History

The Museum of History is a former museum located in Washington D.C. in Fallout 3. The structure itself is relatively undamaged, but the exhibits have mostly been destroyed or ruined. It contains the entrance to the Underworld, which is a city of sentient ghouls. Among other Lincoln artifacts (see below) the Museum also houses the only Lincoln's Repeater and Lincoln's Hat in the game.

Location
The museum is on The Mall. Easiest way to get here is through the Museum Station and Anacostia Crossing Station underground, from Rivet City.

Access
As with many Buildings, like the Washington Monument and Capitol Building, the only access to it would be through the Metro. Be warned, the Metro is inhabited by a number of Raiders, and the only way to get through the Metro to the Museum would be to fight your way through. The easiest way to get to the museum through the Metro would be to go in Anacostia Crossing and head up the tracks, then through the Museum Station.

Inhabitants
The museum -- except Underworld - is infested by feral ghouls.

Lincoln's Artifacts
The Museum of History houses a considerable number of artifacts of Abraham Lincoln. As the former president is a symbol of hope for slaves in the Wastelands, his artifacts are highly sought after by both slaves and slavers (and historians, of course).

You can either keep all the items or sell them to:
 * Hannibal Hamlin from Temple of the Union (for the most caps by passing a Speech check)
 * Leroy Walker at the Lincoln Memorial
 * Abraham Washington in Rivet City

Lower halls

 * Lincoln's Diary is found when you first go up the steps in the large display room on the way to the Museum of History Offices, lying on the first display to the right.

Offices, first floor

 * (A) Lincoln's Hat is found in a room on the 1st floor of the Museum of History Offices. The room is the first door to the right from the entry stairwell and has a collapsed ceiling (you can also drop down into it from the second floor).  The hat is on the floor among the rubble, next to a desk.
 * (B) Action Abe Action Figure is in the Museum of History Offices, behind the locked door to the Archive room on a desk near the turret terminal. The room may also be entered from the room on the right through a hole in the wall.
 * (C) John Wilkes Booth Wanted Poster is in the Southwest corner of the Museum of History offices on a bookshelf.
 * (D) Civil War Draft Poster can be found in the southeast corner of the museum on the lower office level, on the top shelf of the bookcases you see when looking westwards. It seems that the poster can also fall to the ground as well.  This maybe a result of the turret shooting at ghouls or maybe an odd placement by developers which causes it to fall.  Check both top shelf or ground.

Offices, second floor

 * (E) Lincoln's Voice is found on the desk to the left just at the top of the stairs.
 * (F) Lincoln Memorial Poster appears on the wall above a desk just at the top of the stairs to the 2nd floor of the Museum of History Offices (only if you have started the Head of State quest).
 * (G) Antique Lincoln Coin Collection is found on a bookshelf in a room on the right side of the 2nd floor of the Museum of History Offices.
 * (H) Lincoln's Repeater is in a display case on the top floor of the Museum of History Offices, next to a Chinese Army: Special Ops Training Manual.

Other notable loot

 * Nikola Tesla and You on the floor of a stall in the women's restroom in the Museum of History Entrance.
 * Chinese Army: Special Ops Training Manual on the desk next to the case containing Lincoln's Repeater (second floor of museum offices).
 * D.C. Journal of Internal Medicine in the kitchen area of Museum of History Lower Halls on a shelf. It is in the kitchen room with a first aid kit.
 * Nuka-Cola Quantum behind the kitchen area of Museum of History Lower Halls, underneath a table, in a crate. There is the possibility for another one in one of the two Nuka-Cola machines nearby.
 * Stealth Boy opposite the turret control terminal on the first floor of the Museum of History Offices in the Average locked safe.

Bug
In the lower halls, there is a computer terminal you can hack to close a door just near the terminal. It will have an average lock on it if you close it using the computer terminal. You can pick it's lock and close it again, and you can repeat that to gain unlimited xp.