International Independent Showmens Corp Museum

The Showmen's Museum will take you back to fun you had as a child eating cotton candy, riding thrill rides, playing games of chance, spending time with your family, exploring new attractions on the midway like the Wall of Death or the colorful sideshow. Join us as we take you back to the fun, excitement, and entertainment on the midway inside and outside of the museum.

Come visit the International Independent Showmen’s Museum, a museum that is uniquely different from any other museum in all the world. As the name suggests, our beautiful new building houses amazing artifacts, countless photographs spanning over a century of traveling shows in America and eclectic memorabilia from the colorful carnival and circus midways of the past. Simply put, there is...

A showcase of the history that comprised the traveling shows which brought entertainment and culture to America from the 1800's throughout the twentieth century through interactive exhibits and actual antique rides, shows and artifacts that made up the colorful midways of yesteryear.