Forest Park is one of St. Louis' most treasured resources and one of the largest urban parks in the United States. It is the home to the region’s major cultural institutions—the Saint Louis Zoo, Saint Louis Art Museum, History Museum, Saint Louis Science Center and the Muny Opera. It also serves as a sports center for golf, tennis, baseball, bicycling, boating, fishing, handball, and ice-skating.
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Thornhill was the home of Frederick Bates, Missouri’s second governor. The 1820s federal-style home is the oldest standing governor’s residence in Missouri. The home has been restored so visitors can see how a typical farm family lived during the early 1800s. Thornhill is in Faust County Park which also is home to the Butterfly House, the Saint Louis Carousel, and Faust Historical Village.
Read moreSoldiers Memorial Military Museum
The Soldier's Memorial Military Museum is dedicated as a memorial for veterans and as a museum for preserving a historic collection of military artifacts. The building's entrance is flanked by four Bedford stone sculptures by Walker Hancock. Two exhibit rooms hold collections of military items--uniforms, photographs, weaponry, war souvenirs and regalia, posters, medals, and uniforms.
Read moreThe Old Courthouse
The Old Courthouse is best for the Dred Scott slavery trials and where Virginia Minor's case for a woman's right to vote came to trial in the 1870s. Today the Old Courthouse is a museum documenting the history of Saint Louis and the judiciary system of the 19th century. Recently the Old Courthouse was added to the National Park Service's National Underground Railroad Network To Freedom.
Read moreMuseum at the Gateway Arch
Located underneath the Gateway Arch, the Museum at the Gateway Arch preserves some rare artifacts from the days of Lewis and Clark and the 19th century pioneers who helped shape the history of the American West. The museum contains an extensive collection of artifacts related to the westward expansion of the United States.
Read moreThe Museum of Transportation
The Museum of Transportation has one of the largest collections of transportation vehicles in the world, including more than 70 real locomotives -- some of which were used in the earliest days of railroading in the U.S. The wide variety of displays featured at the Museum also includes passenger cars, freight cars, streetcars, automobiles, buses, trucks, horse-drawn carriages, and aircraft.
Read moreMudd's Grove
Mudd's Grove is an antebellum, brick Greek revival house built in 1859 and named for Henry T. Mudd who bought the house and 100 adjoining acres in 1866. Through the years, Mudd's Grove was home to many local families before it was bought by the Kirkwood Historical Society in 1992 and opened for public tours.
Read moreMissouri History Museum
The Missouri History Museum is dedicated to documenting and interpreting the history of the Saint Louis area. The museum is housed in a building formerly called the Jefferson Memorial in honor of President Thomas Jefferson. In 2000 the addition of the Emerson Electric Center to the building gave the Missouri History Museum more exhibit space and additional facilities.
Read moreMissouri Civil War Museum
The Missouri Civil War Museum is located in the Jefferson Barracks Historic Site in just south of Saint Louis. The facility is the largest educational complex dedicated exclusively to Missouri’s role in the Civil War. Visitors will Civil War and other area memorabilia and contains a movie room and several other multimedia presentations.
Read moreScott Joplin House
Of all the houses and clubs in which ragtime composer Scott Joplin lived and worked in Saint Louis, only the second floor flat, which he and his wife Belle Hayden Joplin moved in 1900, survives. The apartment has been restored and furnished with period pieces and the building also has museum exhibits interpreting Joplin's life and work, and Saint Louis during the ragtime era.
Read moreJefferson Barracks Telephone Museum
Housed in a beautifully restored 1896 building, the museum features an extensive collection of telephones, telephone-related equipment and memorabilia. It is located in the Jefferson Barracks Historic Park, just south of downtown Saint Louis. This self-guided, accessible museum has many hands-on, how-things-work displays.
Read moreHawken House
The historic 1857 Christopher Hawken House is the oldest house in suburban Webster Groves. Christopher Hawken was the son of Jacob Hawken who, with his brother Samuel, manufactured the Hawken Rifle. The Hawken House is an excellent example of a Federal/Greek Revival home. It is decorated with furnishings of the era and is home to the Webster Groves Historical Society.
Read moreGriot Museum of Black History and Culture
The Griot Museum of Black History and Culture tells the stories of famous and not-so-famous African-American Missourians including George Washington Carver, Dred and Harriett Scott, and others. Visitors can experience the 'Middle Passage' on a slave ship made to scale or tour an authentic slave cabin. Artifacts, historical documents and the works of local and national artists are also on display.
Read moreUlysses S. Grant National Historic Site
White Haven was the childhood home of Julia Dent Grant, wife of Ulysses S. Grant, the 18th president of the United States. The National Park Service has preserved the site and has restored the main house and other structures to their 1875 appearance. The horse stable contains a museum about the lives and legacy of Ulysses and Julia.
Read moreGateway Arch National Park
Located on the banks of the Mississippi River in downtown Saint Louis, the Gateway Arch National Park was established in 1935 to commemorate the westward growth of the United States between 1803 and 1890. The park complex consists of the Gateway Arch, the Museum of Westward Expansion, and Saint Louis' Old Courthouse.
Read moreField House Museum
The Field House Museum is the boyhood home of Eugene Field, the "Children's Poet." The home contains many furnishings that belonged to the Field family. Several rooms are used to display toy collections and traveling exhibits. In 2016 the Field House Museum opened a 4,000 sq ft expansion with rotating exhibit spaces and, a library, and a gift shop.
Read moreCampbell House Museum
Built in 1851, the first house in the elegant neighborhood Lucas Place, the Campbell House, was the home of renowned fur trader and entrepreneur Robert Campbell and his family from 1854 until 1938. The museum contains hundreds of original Campbell possessions including furniture, paintings, clothing, letters, carriages and a unique set of interior photographs taken in the mid-1880s.
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