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the City Museum in St. Louis

The guys who work in our St. Louis office told me there is no explaining the City Museum, it has to be experienced.   They were right.  Wow.  It's amazing.  The closest description I can give is that it's a gigantic fantastic art installation you explore physically...a bizarre real-life game of chutes and ladders....with caves, a ferris wheel, aquariums, airplanes, a pipe organ, and the world's largest pair of underpants.

I started on the roof...

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Then shot down a ten story spiral slide to the caves...

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I wandered up, down and around a maze of tunnels, stairs and chutes for at least half an hour, eventually emerging into the bright light of a giant tree fort...

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I climbed up to the mezzanine...

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then wandered around in totally goofy wonderment...every once in a while I'd walk into a room so normal looking it seemed out of place...

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I ended outside in the MonstroCity...

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I didn't explore as much of the museum as I would have if I were younger, limber, and had worn proper shoes....I hadn't planned for climbing.  Next time I go to St. Louis I'm going prepared and alotting time to spend the whole day there.

 

My pictures don't do it justice...watch this video...

 

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Susan

Wow! You would need a whole day there, wouldn't you? And hiking shoes!

Beautiful, quirky things... our kind of place!

Melinda

I want to go!

Keli

Oh, Mel, this would be a great trip for you guys once Caroline is a bit older. It's not little kid friendly...I saw a couple there with a couple of young (3ish and 5ish) boys, and I heard a lot of crying, because it's easy to get lost once you start climbing, and there are a lot of places a full-sized adult can't fit. All the kids older than 7 or 8 were having the time of their lives.

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