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.
• $2.00 discount per person off the special exhibition (Lee and Grant) admission rate*
  * The $2 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: 

• Flight City: St. Louis Takes to the Air - thru September 28, 2008
• Jamestown, Quebec and Santa Fe: Three North American Beginnings - thru March 16, 2008
• Change for the Seasons: From Swim Suits to Skates - opens April 13, 2008
• Lee & Grant - May 17, 2008 thru September 7, 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.

Flight City: St. Louis Takes to the Air Now through September 28, 2008 Flight City: St. Louis Takes to the Air, a new exhibition at the Missouri History Museum in Forest Park, is a thrilling and comprehensive exhibition exploring the history of flight in St. Louis.  Featuring more than 200 artifacts, the exhibition allows museum visitors of all ages to experience the exhilarating moments when hot-air balloons, airships and airplanes first soared over our city. Historic photographs, personal stories, gallery activities and treasures from the Missouri History Museum’s collections chronicle our region’s relationship with aviation—from the earliest roots through the 20th century zenith. Visitors will learn about the men and women who let their imagination and sense of adventure take flight: aviators who awed the public with daredevil stunts and entrepreneurs who launched businesses to support the growing culture of aeronautics. The exhibition also examines how aviation—and the demands for bigger, better and faster modes of flight—forever altered St. Louis’ economy, environment and identity. Flight City: St. Louis Takes to the Air features aviation treasures—including the sole surviving P-1 bi-plane made for sale at Parks, an altimeter used in ballooning, a TWA hostess uniform, a forward section of an F-4, a photo of workers at McDonnell Aircraft watching John Glenn circle the world—that evoke the past, while the exhibition challenges you to imagine the future.

Lee and Grant May 18, 2008-September 14, 2008 Two Adversaries. One Exhibition. Nearly 150 years after the Civil War, examine the lives and legacies of generals Robert E. Lee and Ulysses S. Grant. Robert E. Lee and Ulysses S. Grant, two giants in American history, are famous for their adversarial relationship. The exhibition and accompanying catalog will present more than 200 objects to discuss each man in his time, highlighting the similarities as well as the conflicting values of the two men. The exhibition will include documents in the generals’ own hands, accounts by contemporaries, biographical and historical records, Civil War artifacts, paintings, photographs, prints, sculptures, and decorative objects. Never has so vast a collection of Lee and Grant materials been assembled into one exhibition. As a supplement, the Missouri History Museum will display treasures from its collections to demonstrate Lee and Grant’s relationships to the St. Louis region. Organized by the Virginia Historical Society. Made possible in part by the National Endowment for the Humanities: great ideas brought to life and the E. Rhodes and Leona B. Carpenter Foundation. Ticket Prices: $10 per adult; $8 per senior and student; $4 per child (ages 6-12, 5 and under are free) Free admission on Tuesdays AAA members Show Your Card and Save offer $2.00 off adult or senior admission price. For more information visit www.mohistory.org Or call 314 746-4599

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