Barnum’s Museum has the 3-D exploration features. It allows visitors to catch a glimpse of mid 19th century’s style and artifacts. It’s a modern way of teaching history events. It offers archives and classroom settings for an easy entertainment and research projects. However, once you are in “Explore the Museum Picture Gallery”, “Archive” and “Classroom” was not allowed to click freely.
Traveling circuses and Barnum’s Museum were the top 19th century public entertainments. Barnum’s major hoax “Fejee Mermaid” and later “Tom Thumb” drew attention to large crowd. Chang and Eng the “Siamese twins”, conjoined twin brothers, were also exhibited during 1820s. Even though people in 1800s were emerging to the modern changes, but from their entertainment’s view, they were still attracted to the supernatural, spooky ghosts and superstitions.