Smiler from Barnum Museum . . .

The Barnum Museum
participates as a drop off location
for the 20th Annual
St. Luke’s LifeWorks Holiday Gift Collection

Gifts are collected and distributed to more than1,700 children in need.

Drop your holiday toys and gifts at The Barnum Museum 820 Main Street in Bridgeport from now until December 3rd for the 20th Annual St. Lukes LifeWorks Holiday Gift Collection.

St. Luke’s volunteers will wrap and distribute the donated gifts to more than 1,700 children affected by poverty, homeless and Aids. These gifts are often the only presents these children will receive during the holidays. Visit http://www.learnaliving.org/ for other drop off locations, a complete list of the types of toys and gifts accepted for this drive and other ways you may be able to contribute. Giving from the heart ties us all together in this worthwhile cause. For more information call Takeia McAlister at (203) 388-0103.


Holiday Gift Collection Sponsors are Ed McGettigan, the News 96.7 The Coast radio, UBS, Two Men and a Truck, Friends and Children, Downtown Special Services District (DSSD), and Purdue Pharma.

The Barnum Museum has three floors of absolutely fascinating exhibits that illustrate the extraordinary life of Phineas Taylor Barnum.

P. T. Barnum, one-term mayor of Bridgeport and four-term member of the Connecticut General Assembly, was born July 5, 1810 in Bethel and died April 7, 1891 in Bridgeport. The original museum building, owned by the City of Bridgeport is listed in the National Register of Historic Places and is handicapped accessible.

For more information contact:

Kathleen Maher
Executive Director/Curator

The Barnum Museum
820 Main Street
Bridgeport, CT 06604

Telephone: (203) 331-1104
Email: kmaher@barnum-museum.org
or visit website: www.barnum-museum.org