This year’s event features some spectacular new attractions as well as many old favorites.
A magnificent 1910 tableau wagon has been loving restored by the Museum in the magnificent circus colors of red and gold, and will an appropriately dressed band.
This will add to the wonderful display of more than 70 other vintage circus wagons, such as the Ringling Bros Bell Wagon.
But the parade is more than a one-day event. It all starts on July 6, when the wagons are loaded on the half mile long Great Circus Train, for a three-day whistle stop tour of Wisconsin, ending up at Milwaukee’s Veterans Park for an event-filled four days.
Attractions at the showground include the Royal Hanneford Circus, A Buffalo Bill exhibit and antique band concerts. This brilliant even is not only a high spot in the circus lovers’ calendar, it has also been designated one of the top 100 events in America by the American Bus Association. No one visiting the US at that time should miss it.
The parade’s host, The Circus World Museum, will open its 2001 season on May 6. Built on the site of the original Ringling Bros Winter Quarters, the museum will host a Big Top Circus of international acts, a circus poster exhibit and a hands-on encounter with elephants.
The museum was dreamed up in 1954 by John M. Kelley, a former Ringling Bros attorney, to celebrate Winsconsin’s ties with circus history. At one time the state was winter quarters home to more than 100 circuses, including Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey.
The exhibits include more than 200 old time circus wagons, and is a steam-age buff’s delight. But along with the preserved memorabilia of American circus history there are also live performances, classes and other hands on events.
If you are planning a circus fan’s holiday this year, this is the place to go!
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