It's quite true! And (a fact that should be much more widely known) it was started by none other than P.T. Barnum! The final iteration of Barnum's American Museum burned down in 1868, but that doesn't mean that he was "out of the museum business" as many have claimed (he later backed Bunnell's), or that […]
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 10:42AM on May 31, 2024