Barnum Museum

The Barnum Museum is a historical center at 820 Main Street in Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States. It has a broad accumulation identified with P. T. Barnum and the historical backdrop of Bridgeport, and is housed in a notable expanding on the National Register of Historic Places. The building was initially contracted for development by P. T. Barnum himself. The Barnum Museum has attempted to balance out the noteworthy building, and has stayed opened to general society, but in a restricted limit. The Barnum Museum, in organization with the Bridgeport History Center was granted a give from the National Endowment for the Humanities to digitize a bit of their collections.

The P.T. Barnum Digital Collection is facilitated on the University of Connecticut's advanced protection stage, the Connecticut Digital Archive. This advanced gathering holds more than 1,200 things that range from letters and records to apparel worn by P.T. Barnum, Lavinia Warren, and Tom Thumb, and in addition more unordinary things, for example, a cut of nutty cake from the Warren's and Thumb's 1863 wedding. It likewise incorporates furniture from Barnum's Iranistan home that was beforehand shown by the exhibition hall as a piece of a diversion of his library, and an uncommon letterpress copybook of letters composed by P.T. Barnum from 1845 to 1846 when he was visiting Europe with Tom Thumb.