Last updated 4.01.09
What People Are Saying About Hertzberg Circus Museum
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Every Kid's Dream – Children don't have to run away to join in the circus fun, not when the Hertzberg Museum offers a way to clown around. Much of the collection is arranged specifically for kids, including an interactive "clown corner" with a distorted funhouse mirror and wigs. – – For the Young at Heart – Adults will appreciate the over 20,000 pieces of circus memorabilia. Photos, costumes and posters are on display, along with written accounts of circus celebrities and the modern masks clowns use to register their image. Visitors of all ages…
Editor's Tips
- How it Came to Be:
- As president of the Circus Fans of America, State Senator Harry Hertzberg amassed a collection of circus memorabilia.
- You're Right:
- The building does look like a library because it once served that purpose.

