Jun 10 2011
Posted by xiaoyun.xu under June 13 Assignment
Entertaining, or not
Out of curiosity, I clicked “who burned down the museum” before I explore the museum. That’s how I see, P. T. Barnum, in his office and telling me (perhaps) to solve a mystery while I am exploring the museum. That video makes interested in this website even more. I learn that the original Barnum’s American Museum was burn to the ground in one of the most spectacular fires New York has ever seen on July 13, 1865. This virtual version of the museum may not be exactly same, but it certainly cannot be burn down anymore.
My museum night start with the Barnum’s office, which I truly realize that why some many people hated him so much. One picture on his table catch my attention. He was trying to challenge public’s attitudes about everything was happening in that period. Because his politic interests was focusing on race, slavery, and sectionalism in the period leading up to the American civil war. Therefore, he used the museum as one of his ways to speck to the public, such as he played Uncle Tom’s Cabin to make family entertainment. However, what he really wants to do is much more than entertainment.
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