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701 N. 15th St. St. Louis, MO 63103

314-231-2489

http://www.citymuseum.org

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701 N. 15th St. St. Louis MO 63103

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Everyday Circus

Every Wed., Thu., Fri., Sat., Sun.

The multicultural, multigenerational and multitalented troupes that make up the Everyday Circus perform throughout the day. Times subject to change.
The City Museum's 1924 Wurlitzer Pipe Organ

Daily

What’s the one thing the City Museum (701 North 15th Street; 314-231-2489 or www.citymuseum.org) is missing? If you answered, “A 1924 Wurlitzer pip...

Kid on the Flying Trapeze

By Mark Fischer | Thu, January 10, 2013

For more than a decade, Circus Harmony has been bringing St. Louis area kids together, teaching life lessons through the perilous performing arts: trapeze, juggling, wire walking and other gravity defying feats of skill. All of the kids'... More »
The Eight Best Places to Take Out-of-Town Guests in St. Louis

By Riverfront Times Staff | Fri, August 31, 2012

With the long weekend upon us, no doubt you've got some cheapy freeloaders crashing on your couch, looking to you for entertainment. Here are eight great diversions to while away the time, selected wh... More »
Maps and Atlases, Royal Bangs, and More Show Flyers

By Blair Stiles | Tue, May 08, 2012

Maps and Atlases is coming to the Firebird this Saturday in support of its most recent album, Beware and Be Grateful. Also, the Firebird will also host Royal Bangs on Friday. More show flyers, below... More »
Out Every Night: The Best Shows From May 7 to May 13

By Daniel Hill | Mon, May 07, 2012

This week's Most Triumphant Beard of the Week award goes unequivocally to Map's and Atlases' Dave Davison, whose facial hair would be worthy of IFC's cut-throat Whisker Wars competitions -- if that sh... More »
Write a Rapture Haiku and Win Two Tickets to the Best Of St. Louis Party [Updated with Winner]!

By Chrissy Wilmes | Tue, November 01, 2011

This Thursday, City Museum hosts Riverfront Times' Best of St. Louis party: the Rapture event. You can win two free tickets to the party (a $30 value) each of which includes two free drink tickets, ... More »
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2012 | Best Museum

The City Museum is positively Whitmanesque: It's large; it contains multitudes. Consider the radically varied "Bests" it has merited over the years: "Best Kids' Thrill," "Best Place to Take Out-of-Town-Guests," "Best Place to Slip an Out-of-Towner Some Acid," "Best Place to Take a Cynical Out-of-Towner," "Best Place for a Last Date," "Best Place to Play Pinball." Call it a mere museum, and you might incite an argument -- but, hell, this place can do whatever it pleases. The consummate... More »
2011 | Best Kids' Thrill

The City Museum, of course, is nothing new. In fact, it's almost fifteen years old. But that doesn't make it any less awesome. The key to staying relevant for the City Museum is owner/creative director Bob Cassilly's nonstop imagination. "People keep coming back because we're always changing," director Rick Erwin says. "Bob is here all the time thinking of the next thing, thinking of every square inch and how to make it better and more fun." This year the City Museum introduced a whole new... More »
2009 | Best Place to Take Out-of-Town Guests

There's no shortage of splendid, tourist-ready fun to be had in St. Louis, but the hands-down best place for mind-blowing, open-jawed joy is the City Museum. The place is prime for both the kid-having and the kid-shunning, a weird and blissfully eclectic concoction of found art, archeological artifacts, a circus, caves and an aquarium full of sloths and crocodiles and a coati -- yeah, but what is it? It's a museum in the sense that one floor houses old building façades and... More »
2007 | Best Place for a Last Date

If you've got any class whatsoever, you end a relationship in person. But after the "it's not you, it's me," what's a dumper or dumpee to do? The City Museum offers an activity to fit every mood, plus enough square footage and fellow attendees to ensure you won't meet up with the newly minted ex. If you're sad and you could use a hug from Mr. Alcohol, may we suggest Beatnik Bob's for an adult beverage (beer only)? Pissed? Take out your anger on MonstroCity, the amazing agglomeration of metal... More »
2005 | Best Kids' Thrill

"Hello, pretty baby" is the greeting you'll receive at the entrance from Candy and Louie, the resident cockatoos. But these unusual doormen are far from the only feature that makes the World Aquarium a kids' thrill. You want up-close, hands-on experience with aquatic life and ecosystems? You and your small fry can crawl through the caves to view the stingrays, slide over the glass-bottom boat and into the shark-pool tube or explore the animal-touch exhibits in Sand Castle Beach. Visit the... More »
2003 | Best Place to Take Out-of-Town Guests

In a downtown that has been woefully underimagined for the past half-century, one burning ember has fueled the fire of growth around Washington Avenue. It didn't arrive as a hollow mayoral magic bullet, but via sweat, imagination and ever-evolving vision. But we all know that: City Museum owner Bob Cassilly is good for downtown. The best thing to happen to the museum, though, was last year's tax-status swap from non- to for-profit, which opened the floodgates of creativity through a... More »
2002 | Best Place to Slip an Out-of-Towner Some Acid

Holy Hunter S., man. Little goblins dressed up as children scream and run past you. A freaky nightmare snake coils around the balcony -- did you hear what he just said? The bathrooms have a coat of armor created from stainless steel, like, steam-table pans -- it's sooo smooooth, man -- and you can slide from the second floor if the stairs are freaking your shit. Dark, dank pathways twist tortuously under and through trees growing -- if you look closely, you can actually see them grow -- from... More »
2001 | Best Place To Take a Cynical Out-Of-Towner

Take visiting friends or relatives to this vibrantly kitschy museum, and have fun just watching them react. See the bemusement on their faces as they observe children bouncing on the spring-loaded flippers of a hollow whale. Watch them beam with pride as they make their own sheet of paper. And that doesn't even cover the eccentric art and architecture exhibits upstairs, which range from the history of toasters to fevered biblical art. It will bust the hell out of their preconceived notions... More »

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701 N. 15th St. St. Louis, MO 63103

314-231-2489

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Everyday Circus

Every Wed., Thu., Fri., Sat., Sun.

The City Museum's 1924 Wurlitzer Pipe Organ

Daily

Kid on the Flying Trapeze

By Mark Fischer | Thu, January 10, 2013

The Eight Best Places to Take Out-of-Town Guests in St. Louis

By Riverfront Times Staff | Fri, August 31, 2012

Maps and Atlases, Royal Bangs, and More Show Flyers

By Blair Stiles | Tue, May 08, 2012

Out Every Night: The Best Shows From May 7 to May 13

By Daniel Hill | Mon, May 07, 2012

Write a Rapture Haiku and Win Two Tickets to the Best Of St. Louis Party [Updated with Winner]!

By Chrissy Wilmes | Tue, November 01, 2011

2012 | Best Museum

2011 | Best Kids' Thrill

2009 | Best Place to Take Out-of-Town Guests

2007 | Best Place for a Last Date

2005 | Best Kids' Thrill

2003 | Best Place to Take Out-of-Town Guests

2002 | Best Place to Slip an Out-of-Towner Some Acid

2001 | Best Place To Take a Cynical Out-Of-Towner

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