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Chicago Mag by Whet Moser: “St. Louis’s Wondrous City Museum”

This weekend I went to St. Louis to experience two family-friendly temples of merriment. The first was Busch Stadium. The other was the City Museum. The name makes it sound like a generic monument to the Gateway to the West, but it’s actually a wild, singular vision of an oddball artistic mind; the only thing I’ve ever seen like it is the Museum of Jurassic Technology in Los Angeles, made famous by Lawrence Weschler’s Mr. Wilson’s Cabinet of Wonder.

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