Museum · Downtown Bridgeport
The Barnum Museum
820 Main Street, Bridgeport 06604
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A landmark Romanesque-revival museum on Main Street in downtown Bridgeport devoted to the showman P. T. Barnum and to the history of Bridgeport. The building is closed to visitors while it is being restored, and the museum continues with off-site walking tours and talks.
Permanent exhibitions
- Life and legend of P.T. Barnum, showman and Bridgeport mayor
- Circus memorabilia, with a hand-carved miniature circus
- General Tom Thumb and Lavinia Warren artifacts
- Egyptian mummy Pa-Ib
