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“City Museum Back to School Supply Drive”
FOX2 — It’s time to stuff the School Bus (on the Rooftop?!) with school supplies for Kidsmart at City Museum
“How an old East St. Louis church helped build City Museum”
FOX2 — “The castle’s going to come up and you’re gonna be able to walk out at the end the airplane into the top of the castle roof, or you…
“Tim’s Travels: City Museum’s Labyrinth exhibit”
FOX2 – Tim Ezell traveled to the City Museum to visit the museum’s new exhibit, Labyrinth, which is set to open on July 4. While at the museum, Ezell had…
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…
BoingBoing.net by Maggie Koerth-Baker: “The City Museum: St. Louis’ Happy Mutant Wonderland”
At one point — I think it was about halfway through climbing the twisting warren of dark staircases and pipe organ parts that leads to the top of the 10-story…