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St. Louis Is the Burgeoning Midwestern Destination You Need to Visit This Year
No millennial can forget the power Nelly held when he sang “I’m from the Lou and I’m proud” in the 2000 banger “Country Grammar.” Today, “the Lou,” is giving Chicago,…
“A-List 2023: Readers’ Choice Awards”
City Museum: The whimsical destination is a museum unlike any other: An airplane is suspended in metal tubing out front, and a school bus hangs from its roof. But just…
“Step into a new world with these 10 immersive art experiences”
Enjoying art doesn’t have to mean gazing at paintings on a wall. These 10 interactive art spaces, voted as the best in the U.S. by our readers, offer multisensory experiences…
Tripsavvy by Krystin Arneson: “Multipli-City”
Bob Cassilly’s City Museum at St. Louis is Alice-in-Wonderland, down-the-rabbit-hole surreal, going against the logical patterns and enforced pauses that define the ordered grid of a city. The sound of…
Make: by Caleb Kraft: “Junk Yard + Jungle Gym: Visiting The City Museum in St. Louis Missouri”
If you gave Dr. Seuss and M.C. Escher free reign over an old shoe factory and told them to build the world’s craziest jungle gym, you’d get the City Museum…
City Museum in St. Louis Features Art You Have to Touch
It may very well be the world’s largest jungle gym. Located at 750 North 16 St. in downtown St. Louis, City Museum is not so much a museum as it is a massive playground – for kids of all ages.
KSDK Channel 5 by KSDK Staff: “Hey Heidi The Hippo High Atop Wash Ave”
It’s something you may not have ever noticed: a hippo sitting high atop Washington Avenue! But Emily Dittmer did, and she wonders about it every time she walks by.
Roadtrippers by Anna Hider: “A Museum With a Crazy Slide, Giant Ball Pit and Even a Ghost or Two”
City Museum is a museum, consisting largely of repurposed architectural and industrial objects, housed in the former International Shoe building in the Washington Avenue Loft District of St. Louis, Missouri.…
Twisted Sifter: “St. Louis’s Epic MonstroCity”
Opened in 1998, City Museum consists largely of repurposed architectural and industrial objects and is housed in the former International Shoe building in the Washington Avenue Loft District of St.…
Parents.com: “The 15 Best Children’s Museums in the U.S.”
Entering the exhibit hall of the new Exploratorium, we’re greeted by a sight that gives us all pause: two water fountains, one standard issue, the other a toilet fitted with…
Mental Floss
It’s hard to describe St. Louis’s City Museum to people who haven’t been there, but calling it a giant playground is a good place to start…