A scale model of Iranistan, Barnum's Bridgeport mansion, at the Barnum Museum. The building and its artifacts faced broken glass and water damage.

The museum will become “home to an extraordinary story demonstrating the enduring power of the American Dream” with Barnum’s many failures and triumphs explored, “as well as a magnet for ...

Barnum Museum director Kathy Maher, left, and collections manager Adrienne Saint-Pierre are in the process of moving the museum's entire collection, shown here oon Tuesday June, 21, 2011, so that ...

The museum, designed by Barnum, was opened to the public in 1893. Maher acknowledges that the historical status is both an advantage and a stumbling block.

P.T. Barnum is the subject of the new film, The Greatest Showman, in which he’s played by Hugh Jackman. The film follows Barnum as he opens a museum in… ...

The museum also displays the certificate from Tom Thumb’s marriage to the midget Mercy Lavinia Warren Bump in Grace Church in New York on Feb. 10, 1863, before 2,000 spectators and a beaming Barnum.

The museum has been around since 1893, two years after P.T. Barnum died. The curator says the main, historical part of the museum is still closed and can't reopen until the dome is fully stabilized.

The Barnum Museum in Bridgeport has received an impressive national grant for the next step of its ongoing restoration and repairs. News 12 Staff • Sep 15, 2021, 7:39 PM • Updated 1,023 days ...

A Bridgeport museum celebrating the showman P.T Barnum needs $17 million to repair damage caused by a tornado last June. Winds up to 80 miles per hour blew out two windows on June 24, allowing ...

Cash-strapped Barnum Museum in Bridgeport this week turned down an offer of a $10,000 donation from People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals because the offer came with a condition regarding the… ...