Missouri History Museum
Show Your Card and Save Offer at the Missouri History Museum:
$2 off adult admission to any special exhibit
(Valid for up to four admissions. Cannot be combined with any other offer or coupon)
Missouri History Museum is at jct. Lindell Blvd. and DeBaliviere Ave. in Forest Park. Originally built as the first national monument to Thomas Jefferson. The museum’s interactive galleries include Seeking St. Louis, which looks at the lives of St. Louis citizens from the city’s earliest days to the present, and The 1904 World’s Fair, a peek into America’s future as envisioned from the standpoint of the 20th century’s early years. You’ll also discover St. Louis traditions like breweries and baseball, and learn about famous performers like Josephine Baker and Miles Davis. Bixby’s Restaurant serves lunch daily and brunch on Sundays. The Louisiana Purchase museum shop features unique gifts and St. Louis souvenirs.
Time: 1 hour minimum. Hours: Daily 10-6 (also Tues. 6-8 p.m.), Memorial Day-Labor Day; 10-5 (also Tues. 5-8), rest of year. Closed Thanksgiving and Dec. 25. Cost: Free. A fee may be charged for special exhibits. Phone: (314) 746-4599.
Web: mohistory.org
The Civil War in Missouri
November 12, 2011 – March 17, 2013
$10 adults; $8 senior and $6 child (ages 6-12)
SYCS $2 discount per person (limit 4 admission per card)
Perhaps more so than anywhere else, Missouri reflects the Civil War’s rending of a nation. Missouri was bitterly divided between pro-slavery secessionists and those determined to preserve the Union. The Missouri Compromise, the Dred Scott Case and the Missouri-Kansas border conflicts exposed the simmering tensions prior to the outbreak of war. During the Civil War, the governments for both the Union and the Confederacy grappled for control of Missouri. Today, Missouri and its role in the Civil War continue to generate controversy among historians, academics and Civil War enthusiasts.
To commemorate the Civil War sesquicentennial and to explore the complexities of the Civil War in the twenty-fourth state, the Missouri History Museum’s comprehensive exhibit, The Civil War in Missouri, will feature compelling artifacts, imagery and interactive elements. Although the exhibition addresses issues with which our entire nation wrestled, topics that are distinctively Missourian will take center stage.
The Civil War in Missouri explores the bloodiest conflict on our nation’s soil through the eyes of Missourians who experienced it first-hand, and Museum visitors will gain a deeper understanding of how those events shaped who we are today. |
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Mammoths and Mastodons: Titans of the Ice Age
November 25, 2011 – April 15, 2012
$15 adults; $13 senior and $10 child (ages 4-12)
SYCS $2 discount per person (limit 4 admission per card)
From 1.8 million to 10,000 years ago, as an Ice Age cooled global temperatures, colossal mammals roamed Europe, Asia and North America. Standing up to 14 feet high at the shoulder, the mammoth migrated across the Bering Land Bridge into a new world of grasslands and predators, humans not least among them. Slightly shorter, more heavily built, and indigenous to North America, the mastodon also marked an imposing presence on the Pleistocene landscape. What was life like for these animals, whose remains invite so much modern fascination and speculation?
In The Field Museum's new traveling exhibition, explore the world of mammoths and mastodons through an exciting collection of skeletons, casts, tusks, preserved flesh, immersive media, and engaging interactives. Learn to tell the difference between a mammoth and a mastodon, and meet other amazing creatures from the Ice Age landscape such as the saber-toothed cat, giant sloth, and Dire Wolf. Be immersed in a richly animated Ice Age panorama as mammoths lumber toward you out of the forest at dawn; experience the cry of the osprey and hear and see skeins of geese flying overhead.
Learn how Clovis point-armed hunters stalked these elephantine prey. Investigate why these incredible species died out, and whether it's possible to clone them today. From the Pleistocene to the present, watch evolution in action and explore the dynamic world of Mammoths and Mastodons: Titans of the Ice Age.
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.
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. |
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