BRIDGEPORT — Restorations at the shuttered Barnum Museum are still in progress, but a federal grant to the tune of $500,000 could pick up the pace. Famed showman P.T. Barnum’s eponymous museum ...

Barnum Museum P.T. Barnum’s second wife donated the mummy to the museum in 1894, but it wasn’t until 2006 that researchers determined the mummy was the remains of a female priest.

Museum officials say she may have her own room. MORE: Barnum Museum learns true identity of 4,000-year-old mummy ...

One of Barnum Museum’s popular artifacts was always believed to be the story of an Egyptian priest. But in recent years, the museum found out that wasn’t the case.

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

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 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 initial $2.4 million estimate of the Barnum Museum’s structural damage from the June 24, 2010 tornado is now at over $6 million. Timbers that hold up the Barnum Museum’s dome, were ...

Museum officials say she may have her own room. MORE: Barnum Museum learns true identity of 4,000-year-old mummy ...