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The Barnum Museum is a museum at 820 Main Street in Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States. It has an extensive collection related to P. T. Barnum and the history of Bridgeport. The building in which it is housed was built with funding from Barnum, and initiallly housed the Barnum Institute of Science and History .
November 7, 1972 (820 Main St. Downtown: Designated a National Historic Landmark in 2023.: 2: Barnum/Palliser Historic District: Barnum/Palliser Historic District: December 16, 1982
For Barnum, the museum featured one of the first of the many natural history collections which he would provide to over 200 American universities over the course of his life. [citation needed] After Barnum's death in 1891, the museum continued to prosper. A further $40,000 provided by Barnum gave the museum two new wings and several new ...
The Barnum Museum, housed in a building that was originally contracted for construction by P. T. Barnum himself, has an extensive collection related to P. T. Barnum and the history of Bridgeport. In 1949, Bridgeport initiated a Barnum Day parade which has grown into an annual multi-day festival.
Pages in category "Museums in Bridgeport, Connecticut" ... Barnum Museum; D. Discovery Museum and Planetarium; H.
Seaside Park, before 1886 P. T. Barnum Monument, sculpted by Thomas Ball in 1887, and placed at Seaside Park in 1893. [3]As Bridgeport rapidly grew in population in the 19th century, residents recognized the need for more public parks.
Barnum Museum: Bridgeport: Fairfield: Biographical: A collection related to P. T. Barnum, his circus and the history of Bridgeport, Connecticut housed in a historic building on the National Register of Historic Places: Bates-Scofield Homestead: Darien: Fairfield: Historic house: website, operated by the Darien Historical Society, 18th-century ...
The East Main Street Historic District encompasses a well-preserved late 19th-century commercial area on the east side of Bridgeport, Connecticut.Extending along East Main Street from Interstate 95 to Crescent Place, the district arose as part of a major development push orchestrated by P.T. Barnum in the 1850s, and contains one of Connecticut's finest assemblages of late Victorian commercial ...