The Lost Museum

American Social History Project/Center for Media and Learning in collaboration with Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media

https://lostmuseum.cuny.edu/about.php#sponsor

The video explains through descriptive audio and pictures how Barnum's American Museum opened in 1841 in New York City, in no time became the most visited place in America but was destroyed in July 1865. It then shows the effects of this damage through animated pictures, music, and no descriptive audio.

Computer, internet connection, ability to analyze data through audio description, visuals, and text.

This is a website with more details to better understand the story of the lost museum:
https://visualizingnyc.org/essays/barnums-museum/

Basic knowledge of museums and Geography.

Having audio description, visuals and text makes it more accessible. However, it does not include subtitles in the video to help understand the audio better. It is limited to only one language, which is English.

English

2002-2015