Admission to Jacot’s sideshow will cost $5 for adults, $4 for kids. Shows will start every half hour from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. every day except Tuesday through the summer. In addition to performances by Jacot and his colleagues, the Wondertorium will feature exhibits such as a two-bodied turtle, a Sasquatch footprint and a mummified human arm.

Jacot said exploring sideshow history challenges visitors’ preconceptions about what it means to be disabled. In circus sideshows, performers without arms or legs accomplished feats their audiences wouldn’t dare attempt. “It flips in their head what is ‘handicapped.’ I think it’s very empowering,” he said. “That’s why I’m doing this, to show what (a) sideshow was historically and to show the importance of it.”

Creating a stationary show is a new challenge for Jacot, who previously performed at county fairs and managed the circus train for Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey. Mr. Marvel’s Wondertorium is one of only four stationary sideshows in the U.S., Jacot said.

“I’m not used to being in one place,” he said Tuesday. “We’ll be working 25 hours a day getting this ready.”