Tweet-a-Week II: Barnum's American Museum

Unlike what typically comes to mind when thinking of a museum, Barnum's was a bit more on the eccentric side. Located on Broadway in New York, the museum housed various human oddities such as a 25-inch tall dwarf, a fiji mermaid, siamese twins, etc.

I can see the appeal, especially to any kind of poet. One of the goals of creative writing is to force the audience to look at things in a new or unusual way; to change their way of thinking, if only temporarily. This museum seems like a good physical example of that, by showing something we are obviously very familiar with (humans) and displaying the ways in which they vary from the norm.

Much inspiration could be drawn from a place like that. Wish I could see it...