Barnums Museum was once considered the nations number one attraction. Containing a wax museum, various animal exhibits, circus side shows and freak shows, Barnum represented the American fascination with the strange and fantastical. Before mysteriously burning to the ground, the barnum museum would attract tens of thousands of visitors daily for a quarter. At the end of its run, it had attracted almost 35 million, when the american population was only at 22 million. The museum had also solicited various celebrities including the great walt whitman who wanted to become Americas scribe.
Whitman had found enjoyment in the museum and could you blame him? It housed various artifacts of the strange, human irregularities and strange science that could not be explaing in that era. It was the first amusement park, a disneyland and whitman was thouroughly impressed hoping to preserve a part of his legacy within the museum.
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