As seen in…

See the latest and greatest City Museum news.

Featured Articles

Millennium Hotel restaurant’s rotation gears donated to City Museum

Spectrum News — The Gateway Arch Park Foundation donated the gears that turned the Millennium Hotel’s roof top restaurant to the St. Louis City Museum. Staff are brainstorming plans for how the gear mechanism will be used for the enjoyment of visitors and hope to unveil that early next year.

How St. Louis are you? We tackled bucket-list experiences we’d never tried

St. Louis Post-Dispatch — As anyone who's been there can tell you, City Museum is almost impossible to take in all at once. There's an endless cave system, a giant whale sculpture, slides that wind through multiple stories of the former factory Bob Cassilly transformed using repurposed industrial and architectural treasures.

Mosaic artist of City Museum, Venice Café passes

FOX2 — At Venice Café in Benton Park, the work of mosaic artist Sharon von Senden is everywhere, from the floor to the ceiling. Von Senden died Sunday at the…

Missouri museum achieves world record for largest gathering of people with underwear on their heads

Fox News — A museum in Missouri recently broke a Guinness World Record for hosting the world’s largest gathering of people with underwear on their head. The City Museum in St. Louis, Missouri, wanted to commemorate “314 Day” this year with flair. As a nod to its town’s area code, 314, the museum hosted an event on March 14 and decided to shoot for the stars by trying to achieve yet another Guinness World Record title.

City Museum introduces ‘Talking Heads’ display and City Nights series

The Chris and Amy Show on KMOX hosts Katy Enrique, Director of Sales & Marketing for City Museum, to discuss events and exhibits planned for Summer 2024.

“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.