Missouri History Museum

Show Your Card and Save Offer at the Missouri History Museum:*

• FREE dessert with the purchase of an entrée at Museum restaurant, Meriwethers.
• $1.00 discount per person off the special exhibition admission rate*
  • The $1 discount is valid for the card holder and up to 4 people when purchasing an adult or senior admission ticket.

The Missouri History Museum offers programs and outreach services, including traveling exhibitions, tours, theatrical and musical presentations, programs for school classes and youth groups, family festivals, special events, workshops, and lectures. Permanent exhibitions currently on view include /Seeking St. Louis/, an exciting, state-of-the-art, interactive, two-gallery exhibition which tells the history of the region from earliest times to the present, /Lindbergh/ and /1904 World’s Fair/. The Missouri History Museum also presents a full schedule of changing special exhibitions. Featured at this time:

• Katherine Dunham: Beyond the Dance - Opens November 2, 2008
• Change for the Seasons: From Swim Suits to Skates - Opens
  September 14, 2008
• George Washington Carver - Opens November 30, 2008/

For more information please visit www.mohistory.org

Meriwether's, The Missouri History Museum's fabulous restaurant is situated on the top floor of the Emerson Center, with a spectacular view of Forest Park through an expansive wall of curved glass from ceiling to floor. FREE dessert with the purchase of an entrée at Museum restaurant, Meriwethers.

Discovery Tours

Discover the pieces of St. Louis’s past in a history-based guided tour

The Missouri History Museum’s Discovery Tours are local excursions designed to entertain and educate. Inspired by the museum exhibitions and programming, these tours explore historic themes at various sites throughout the city and the region. All tours will be led by trained guides with expertise in the tour topic’s field.

For more information or to reserve your Discovery Tour, please visit their web site or call 314 361-9017.

George Washington Carver
At the Missouri History Museum*
November 29, 2008-March 1, 2009

George Washington Carver (1864Ð1943) may have been born a slave and orphaned as an infant, but he went on to become one of our nation's most innovative scientists. Through rich imagery, historical artifacts, audio-visual programs, and hands-on interactive, visitors will discover how Carver went from slave to scholar, his pioneering of natural product development, the work he did to resurrect the soil of the South, why he was the people's scientist, and what his legacy is today.
Organized by the Field Museum of Chicago

Cost: $10 per adult; $8 per senior or student; $6 per child ages 6-12,
under 6 is free

Katherine Dunham: Beyond the Dance
At the Missouri History Museum
November 2, 2008 - November 8, 2009

Through Objects, costumes, stage settings recorded media and live performance spaces, museum visitors will be surrounded with the energetic life and legacy of Katherine Dunham. To mark the centennial of her birth, the exhibition will explore Katherine Dunham's research and work in anthropology, her revolutionary dance technique, her film career, her global activism and her enduring legacy. Organized by the Missouri History Museum

Cost: $7 per adult; $5 per senior or student; $3 per child ages 6-12, under 6 is free

Combination ticket available for admission to both exhibitions:
$14 per adult; $12 per senior or student; $6 per child ages 6-12, under 6 is free

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