American Museum
About American Museum
Barnum's American Museum was a dime museum located at the corner of Broadway, Park Row, and Ann Street in what is now the Financial District of Manhattan, New York City, from 1841 to 1865. The museum was owned by famous showman P. T. Barnum, who purchased Scudder's American Museum in 1841. The museum offered both strange and educational attractions and performances. Some were extremely reputable and historically or scientifically valuable, while others were less so.
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This museum, the American Museum, it sounds amazing. More people went to it proportionately, I think, than have been to Disneyland or Disney World or whatever it is.
from 320: No Such Thing As A Hairy Gearstick, 2020-05-08 at 00:05:29 · read transcript
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I thought it was a female eagle or something like that. He was brilliant. Oh, he was. Yeah. He invented the skylight, I believe. I think he's the first person to, yeah, the American Museum in Manhattan. That should probably be fact checked. Yeah, the first person to burn electric lights at night for no pragmatic reason, other than self-promotion. The original New York City skyline was just the word Barnum. That's fantastic.
26: No Such Thing As A Yeti Fact, 2014-09-13 · listen
He was brilliant. Oh, he was, yeah. He invented the skylight, I believe. I think he's the first person to... The American... American Museum in Manhattan, that should probably be fact-checked. Yeah, the first person to burn electric lights at night for no pragmatic reason, other than self-promotion. The original New York City skyline was just the word Barnum. That's fantastic. I got shapeless void. The museum burned down, didn't it?
No Such Thing As A Yeti Fact, 2014-09-13 · listen
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