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Barnum's American Museum

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former museum in New York City

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  1. 1Barnum's American Museum

    Welcome to the bustling intersection of Broadway and Ann Street in lower Manhattan. If you look around today, you will see a modern commercial landscape dominated by a rather square stone building at two hundred twenty-two…

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  2. 2The Grand Facade and Ticket Booth

    Imagine towering above you a massive, five-story structure adorned with massive, painted banners, waving flags, and a kaleidoscope of dramatic advertisements. This was the grand facade of the American Museum, strategically…

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  3. 3The Ground Floor Menagerie

    Upon entering the museum's ground floor, visitors were instantly assaulted by a wall of sound and the unmistakable, pungent odor of captive exotic animals. This was Barnum's grand menagerie. …

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  4. 4The Aquarial Garden

    Adjacent to the roaring beasts of the menagerie lay a surprisingly complex feat of indoor plumbing and aquatic engineering: Barnum's famous Aquarial Garden. If the menagerie was designed to terrify and awe, the Aquarial Garden…

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  5. 5The Hall of Curiosities

    Ascending the creaking wooden staircases, visitors arrived at the sprawling Hall of Curiosities. This floor was a testament to the nineteenth century's insatiable appetite for discovery, collecting, and categorization. …

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  6. 6The Humbug Gallery

    We now step into a section of the museum that came to define Barnum's entire public persona: the gallery of the humbug. Barnum gleefully referred to himself as the 'Prince of Humbugs.' It is vital to understand that in his era, a…

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  7. 7The Human Marvels Platform

    Perhaps the most famous, and the most ethically complex, area of the American Museum was the platform dedicated to human marvels. Here, Barnum exhibited people with physical anomalies, exploiting the public's fascination with the…

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  8. 8The Moral Lecture Room

    At the very core of the museum's entertainment offerings was a massive, three-thousand-seat theater. However, Barnum fundamentally understood the delicate social politics of mid-nineteenth-century America. …

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  9. 9Closing

    Our journey through Barnum's American Museum concludes where the physical building itself met its end: in ashes. The catastrophic fire of July eighteen sixty-five completely gutted the five-story structure. …

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