Greatest Show on Earth - Mural - Sarasota, Florida, USA.
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The Greatest show on Earth - A giant mural 22 x 42 feet - On permanent display in the Tibbal's Learning Center. Part of the Ringling Museums Estate. Located just off the Tamiami Trail, Sarasota, Florida.
Waymark Code: WMN28P
Location: Florida, United States
Date Posted: 12/12/2014
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A stunning work of art like this you would expect to find in an Art Museum not a Circus Archive & Learning Center.
"In January of 2006, the Circus Museum, Tibbals Learning Center opened to house posters, special exhibitions and its centerpiece – the 3,800 square foot Howard Bros. Circus Model, a 44,000-piece re-creation of the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey® Circus combined shows from 1919-1938.
The Tibbals Learning Center also houses The Greatest Show on Earth, a 924-square-foot mural depicting the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey® show of the 1970s and 80s. Donated by the Feld family and Feld Entertainment Inc., the parent company of Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey®, this colossal work salutes such feature acts as aerialist Dolly Jacobs, her father, master clown Lou Jacobs, and the celebrated animal presenter Gunther Gebel-Williams.
In 2012, a west wing was added to the Tibbals Learning Center. Here, visitors to these interactive galleries can walk the wire, squeeze into a clown car and have their picture take with a faux tiger.
The 12,000-square-foot second floor houses the Archives that houses one of the country’s most important collections of rare handbills and art prints, circus papers, business records, heralds and photos.
So much of this has been made possible by the generosity of Howard Tibbals and his wife Janice. Tibbals fell in love with the circus as a boy and devoted his life to creating the miniature circus and lending his family name to the Learning Center." Text Source: (
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