From my vantage point in the corner of the room, I watch dozens of people lay eyes upon the Feejee Mermaid for the first time. Each person steps up to the exhibition table, radiating enthusiasm. Each ...

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Last summer while exploring museums in London, I encountered three different notorious fakes on display. Grotesquely combining a half-fish, half-mammal body, these Fiji mermaids crept among the ...

It has a scaly tail with long, jagged spikes, and ribs that protrude from its midsection. Its head is akin to the skull of a monkey’s, with piranha-like teeth that stick out of its jaw. And the arms?

Clay McLeod Chapman digs into the dusty steamer trunk of mono-stories from his cult indie theater fave The Pumpkin Pie Show, resuscitating some old faves to send chills down the audience's spine ...

Attracting visitors with famous showman P.T. Barnum’s Feejee Mermaid sculpture, the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology drew dozens to its 150th anniversary celebration Saturday. Students and ...

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The Smithsonian Institution got its start during an era in which P.T. Barnum was running a scientific “institute” of his own, but Kasey Sease points out that the two museums were never competitors in ...

Although it helped make him a fortune, Phineas Taylor Barnum admitted that he wasn’t too proud of the spectacle: this tiny monkey severed at the waist and stitched to the mummified tail of a fish. But ...