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City Museum

Museums / Galleries, Downtown

User Rating: ***** 5.0

Fodor's Review:

This institution is unlike any museum you've been to before. You can crawl through fish-head trees, participate in a real circus, and escape from an enchanted castle via a slide and tunnel system.

Member Reviews & Ratings:

One of most incredible man-made experiences I've had.

Posted by DFletterWard from Bethesda, Maryland on 7/29/07

I just returned from two visits in one day to the City Museum. I went there in the morning with my two boys ages 2 and 3. We were each so enthralled and excited by the experience, my husband insisted we go back with him in the evening. It's was an incredible, exciting, inspiring, and unexpected experience. I had asked a local for the "children's museum" and they sent me to the City Museum. I couldn't figure out why there were people lining up outside to visit a children's museums. I'd been to 20 around the country and none had crowds like this! Now I know why and am giddy from the experience. It's freeing to know something like this exists.

EXPERIENCE: 5.0

EASE: 5.0

VALUE: 5.0

DON'T MISS: 5.0

RATING: 5.0

A must-see attraction like no other!!

Posted by lv2xplore from Nevada on 2/9/07

This place is truly amazing--I have never seen anything like it. Slide down multi-story slides, venture through exquisite tunnels and caves, climb the outdoor above-ground exhibit they call "MonstroCity," see a circus show, watch a glass-blowing demo, make some of your own art in "Art City" to take home with you, and the list just goes on! You can easily spend a whole day here...and it's not just for kids either! I'm part of the 30+ club and I had a blast!!

EXPERIENCE: 5.0

EASE: 5.0

VALUE: 5.0

DON'T MISS: 5.0

RATING: 5.0

My Fears Rested and My Soul Emboldened

Posted by knordine17 from Chicago on 2/8/07

When I first visited City Museum I was terrified of the high climbing areas, I was informed they are called "sky tunnels." Once I started though, I got over my fears as I realized just how safe and secure the apparatus was. I then charged forward to find that the structure was helping my terrible vertigo disappear! I have never had so much fun defying gravity in such a safe environment! Don't miss this place!

EXPERIENCE: 5.0

EASE: 5.0

VALUE: 5.0

DON'T MISS: 5.0

RATING: 5.0

An edgy jewel in an urban wasteland

Posted by Tina from Tulsa, OK on 7/21/06

We were a little wary upon pulling into the run-down neighborhood... but what a find. So incredibly different, like an city park designer on LSD was told to have fun and did. My 5-year-old son said he liked it almost as much as Disney World (seriously). I'd caution parents to be prepared to climb and crawl (often through tight and metallic-smelling spaces) along with their child... the nooks and crannies are part of the charm of this place, but I worry about child exploitation. The crowd that started drifting in late (lots of unaccompanied, unkempt teens) also made us clutch our bags a bit closer. But we'd make the trip to St. Louis again just for this (and the Schlafly beer) in a heart-beat.

EXPERIENCE: 5.0

EASE: 5.0

VALUE: 5.0

DON'T MISS: 5.0

RATING: 5.0