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Jul '07

Circus museum tries to bounce back

Steve Freese talks about some of the history at the Circus World Museum Thursday, July 12, 2007, in Baraboo, Wis. The museum, which opened in 1959, is spread out over a 63-acre site that served as the winter home of the Ringling brothers' circus from 1884 to 1918. Not long ago, the Circus World Museum seemed to be falling like a trapeze artist without a net. Tourists were abandoning this small town, where Ringling Brothers got its start, largely because of the end of the annual circus parade that helped fund the museum. But now the museum might be saved, thanks to savvy fundraising, operational finesse, and a former state lawmaker who ran off to join the circus — or at least the circus museum.


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