World Circus Day is on April 20th and the Ringling Museum in Sarasota is celebrating the day with free entry to the Circus Museum.

The museum also honors the day by celebrating the 50th anniversary of the flagship show 'The Greatest Show On Earth" by circus production giants Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey with a new gallery. The gallery gives us a glimpse into this riveting and highwire magical world of the circus.

"I find it interesting especially the acrobats and how agile they were," said Dorothy Rawlinson, who was visiting from Oklahoma.

"I remember the shows with the trapeze, and that was I believe my most favorite, and the fact that you could take your little book that you got at the circus, and the clowns would come over and sign it," said Sonnya Apodaca of Apollo Beach.

The Greatest Show On Earth Gallery showcases 50 years of production under the umbrella of The Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey Circus. The circus was acquired in 1968 by the Feld family who have guided its continued success under their stewardship well into a third generation of circus entertainment producers.

"They have outlasted any other family that owned the title and they really innovated the circus to bring it up to the 21st century," said Jennifer LemmerPosey, Curator, Ringling Museum.

The Feld family is among the many families that followed in the path of circus pioneer John Ringling who in 1927 turned Sarasota into a Circus Winter Quarter.