Greatest shrine on earth: Ringling Circus Museum reveals major upgrade,
exhibition
The greatest circus shrine on earth just got even better.Sunday, Sep. 25, 2011
On Saturday, Ringling Circus Museum’s Tibbals Learning Center, which already houses the planet’s largest miniature circus, opened with 11,000 square feet of fresh interactive exhibition space.
Philanthropist, master circus model builder and Sarasota resident Howard Tibbals funded the $7.5 million Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design addition capable of withstanding a Category 4 hurricane.
Philanthropist, master circus model builder and Sarasota resident Howard Tibbals funded the $7.5 million Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design addition capable of withstanding a Category 4 hurricane.
Courtesy of the Ringling Museum and Howard Tibbals Collection P.T. Barnum’s Greatest Show on Earth & The Great London Circus. Jumbo, the largest elephant ever seen by mortal man, wild or in captivity.“Then there was a state match of about $3.4 million that happened about 18 months ago,” said Deborah Walk, historian and Tibbals curator of the Circus Museum at the John and Mabel Ringling Museum of Art.
Amazing postersTo coincide with the exciting expansion, the museum has brought in an exhibition featuring 80 beautifully strange and richly detailed circus posters from P.T. Barnum’s “Greatest Show on Earth,” Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus and more.“The Amazing American Circus Poster: The Strobridge Lithographic Company, 1878-1939” originally opened at the Cincinnati Art Museum, the same city where the posters were manufactured.
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