The City Museum in St. Louis is one of those places that I couldn't even begin to describe, but I'm going to try. Every year we head over to the Midwest to visit my in-laws and it wouldn't be the a trip to St. Louis if we didn't hit up the City Museum at least once and that's because this place is AWESOME. Seriously.
Let me explain. The City Museum is a very, very hands on museum filled with relics of old St. Louis. The interior of this old shoe factory is home to pediments from old banks and columns from old buildings. The slides and climbing structures are made from re-bar, old airplane parts, old building parts, etc. soldiered together. There are tunnels and tubes running all through the ceilings that this claustrophobe would never dare to go in, but children absolutely LOVE them. And did I mention the 10 story slide? The museum itself is four stories of slides, shows, a mini train, an art center, an outdoor water zone and ball pits. You can even climb into a bus and an old airplane that seem to be floating in the air 10 stories up. Oh and there's a Ferris Wheel on the roof.
What can I say? I have nothing but praise for the City Museum. I love how the entire place captures the excitement of being a kid and inspires them to try new things and be a little (or very) adventurous. And what I also love is how the uniqueness of the City Museum is achieved by the hard work of so many very talented artists.
Enough of my raving though, check out the pictures below and see for yourself!
The bottom floor - notice the slinky like tunnel that comes out of the cieling? You could be crawling through that right now.
Outside - crawl through the body of a gutted airplane while a few stories up.
Slide down the 10 story slide! (Side note - I was too chicken to do this).
City Museum is home to a variety of slides for the slide connessiour including ones like this one where you zoom down what is easily the most colorful slide you've ever been on.
Look closely, that's a spiral tunnel!
City Museum exterior - check out all those tunnels that lead in and out of this old airplane body!
As always this is not a sponsored post, simply me raving about something I love.
top image: Max and Houdini taken during on our last trip
all other images via Pinterest
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