According to the Barnum Museum museum website, the building, located at 820 Main Street, has begun a “major construction of the historic exterior.” The museum building has been closed to visitors since it sustained damage in a 2010 tornado. The Barnum Museum is on the National Register of Historic Places and is dedicated to Barnum & Bailey circus founder, former Bridgeport mayor and longtime resident, P.T. Barnum. Built in 1893, it contains more than 60,000 artifacts related to Barnum, Bridgeport and 19th century America. In the years since the tornado, the museum has raised $15 million toward repairs. That money has largely gone toward repairing the building’s iconic onion dome and east wall, and to clean some of the estimated 20,000 artifacts that sustained damage from water, dust, humidity and bits of broken glass.
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