The famous showman P. T. Barnum gave his name to this dime museum, a kind of popular, low-cost entertainment venue known for its curiosities. He took it over by buying Scudder's American Museum in 1841, and it ran from then until 1865 at the corner of Broadway, Park Row and Ann Street, in what is now the Financial District of Manhattan.
Its attractions and performances mixed the strange with the educational. The museum no longer operates, and its building has been destroyed.
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