Last week we took the grandkids on a trip to St. Louis. My sister and niece, who live within half-an-hour or so of the city, served as our tour guides. Their destination of choice was the City Museum. From their description, I expected a 'museum'-museum, with fascinating displays, but with the displays still being look-but-don't-touch.
I couldn't have been more wrong.
The museum is a wild and crazy urban fantasy fun park. In Disneyland, the rides do all the playing and the people are relatively static. In the City Museum, the displays are static and the people move, and run, and jump, and swing, and slide, slide, slide. The grandkids were having so much fun that we didn't bother going to another museum, but stayed there for hours.
If you have children and are near St. Louis, or stopping there, go. Have fun. Don't expect to leave soon.
Sign out front
Entryway sculptures
The Puking Pig
Kids in a whale
3-photo vertical panorama of the 10-story slide
Mesh climbing-tower on the 11th-story roof.
Ferris wheel, also atop the roof
Climbing cage with its slide underneath
Inside the school bus
The school bus -- on the corner of the roof
The world's largest pair of underpants
Hole-in-the-floor slide
Aerial planes
The parking lot barrier
We're going back.
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