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Mosaic artist of City Museum, Venice Café passes
A work of art: Sharon Von Senden, woman behind City Museum’s mesmerizing mosaics, dies at 83
Smashing Pumpkins at City Museum
“City Museum’s New Talking Heads Watch Over Its Roof”
Riverfront Times — City Museum unveiled a new art installation this week in its outdoor MonstroCity section. Talking Heads offers two heads roughly ten feet tall, each with more than 4,000 individually controlled LED lights. Created by immersive light artist Viktor Vicsek, co-founder of the digital media company Limelight, the piece was formerly installed in Amsterdam, Budapest, Norrköping, Montreal, Hong Kong and Toronto.
Roaming St. Louis: Nothing quite like City Museum
KMOX Total Information AM Weekend — If you’re looking for a unique place to spend a few hours (with or without kids), look no further than City Museum. It’s got 30 slides, art and architecture galleries, a bus hanging off the roof, airplanes, you name it. The downtown St. Louis attraction was KMOX host Scott Jagow’s destination this week for Roaming St. Louis.
Museum visitors wear underpants on their heads to break record with fashion spectacle
Guinness World Records by Vicki Newman — Talk about a brief encounter! A USA museum that’s home to a gigantic pair of underwear invited people to become world record holders by wearing pants on their head. 355 people joined together at City Museum in St Louis, Missouri, to set the record for the largest gathering of people wearing underwear on their heads.
Photos: City Museum sets world record for people wearing underwear on their heads on 314 Day
St. Louis Post-Dispatch by Robert Cohen — The City Museum set a world record for 355 people wearing underwear on their heads on Thursday, March 14, 2024, eclipsing the old record of 270 people. The event was part of 314 celebrations in St. Louis. A representative from Guinness World Records was on hand to mark the occasion.
“City Museum’s New World Record: Most People Wearing Underwear on Their Heads”
Riverfront Times by Zachary Linhares — Today a St. Louis institution earned a spot in the record books for the second time — City Museum broke the world record for the most people wearing underwear on their heads. The official tally was 355, smashing the old record of 270. And if that’s not a major point of 314 Day pride for you, well, what kind of St. Louisan are you?
Meet the Curator: Rick Erwin of City Museum
Explore St. Louis by Rachel Huffman — On their first date, Rick Erwin and his wife went to City Museum. More than 20 years later, he’s creative director of the weirdly wonderful St. Louis attraction.
10 best immersive art experiences in the US to visit in 2024
USA TODAY 10Best 2024 – No. 4: City Museum – St. Louis, Missouri. City Museum in St. Louis, Missouri, is home to a 10-story spiral slide, the world’s largest jungle gym, and a rooftop garden that offers amazing city views. Some 20 artists created the large-scale features of this interactive museum well before the term ‘immersive art’ became a thing
“Explore, play, and discover: 10 best children’s museums in the US”
USA TODAY 10Best 2024 – No. 9: City Museum – St. Louis, Missouri. Housed in the 600,000-square-foot former warehouse of the International Shoe Company, the City Museum in St. Louis, Missouri, has a bit of everything — the world’s largest jungle gym, a 10-story spiral slide, and a rooftop garden with stellar views of the city.