Following Phineas Gage

Phineas Gages story ended up at the “P.T. Barnum’s American Museum”, located in New York City on Broadway. This was no ordinary museum. This was a museum of the unthinkable; people would come from all over just to see. The museum included things such as “mermaids”, “bearded ladies”,” living giants”, bizarre animals and creature’s people just wanted to see for themselves. Among these things were pictures and models of Phineas’ head and explanations of what happened. At times Phineas himself would be presented at the museum with his tamping iron.