Ringling Miniature Circus Museum

As you will read an explaination of my bloging the Ringling Estate in the next two blogs, I will only say that this is Blog 3 of 4 covering the Ringling Estate. Because of the size of the estate, I will show pictures and write a short discussion of the pictures covered in each blog.

Ringling Minature Circus Museum. Located in the Circus Museum's Tibbals Learning Center, The Howard Bros. Circus Model is a replica of the The Ringling Bros, and Barnum & Bailey Circus from 1919-1938. Complete with eight main tents, 152 wagons, 1,300 circus performers and workers, more than 800 animals and a 59-car train, the model is built in 3/4-inch-to the foot scale and occupies 3,800 square feet. The lighting is set to periodically go down and the circus lights would come up, that is to explain the darker pictures. "The world's largest miniature circus" was created over a period of more than 50 years by master model builder and philanthropist Howard Tibbals.