On July 6, 1944, a blaze broke out at a Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey show in Hartford, Connecticut. At least 167 ...

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. Phineas Taylor Barnum was born on July 5, 1810 in Bethel Connecticut. He worked hard as a small boy to help support the family. When Barnum was 15 ...

The Barnum Museum in Bridgeport received recognition during the 48th Boston/New England Emmy Awards for a video series that showcases the life of the museum's namesake, Connecticut showman P.T. Barnum ...

Go on a journey through the life of P.T. Barnum, a man who believed in the impossible, taking audiences to new heights with a high-stakes tightrope walk live on stage!

The final curtain fell late Sunday on the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus, known widely as "the Greatest Show on Earth." The circus, which traces its lineage back to showman P.T. Barnum ...

When P.T. Barnum and the five Ringling Brothers combined their talents nearly 150 years ago, magic was born. The Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey Circus was billed as the “Greatest Show ...

By 1841, Barnum had acquired Scudder’s American Museum, which he opened as Barnum’s American Museum in 1842. Here he exhibited his next hoax - the ‘Feejee Mermaid’.

On March 28, 1881, P.T. Barnum and James A. Bailey merged their circuses to form The Greatest Show on Earth.

Bailey came from a circus family: His father, Hackaliah Bailey, began what is considered North America's first circus, the North Salem Circus, in the 1800s, a precursor to Barnum.

The Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey circus (often shortened to just “Ringling” in advertisements) has been resurrected by the same company, Feld Entertainment, that shut it down in 2017.