List of museums and cultural institutions in Greater St. Louis

The Greater St. Louis metropolitan area has many cultural institutions and museums including:

The Gateway Arch and the Museum of Westward Expansion. The Museum of Westward Expansion is an underground museum beneath the Gateway Arch focusing on St. Louis' role in the expansion and settling of the United States west of the Mississippi River before and after the Louisiana Purchase.
The Saint Louis Art Museum, Missouri History Museum, Jewel Box, Saint Louis Zoo, McDonnell Planetarium, and the Muny are all located in Forest Park, the city's premiere park.
The City Museum has a collection of re-purposed architectural and industrial objects constituting a multistory play-land. It also features an aquarium and a museum of historical architecture.
Grand Center is a historic arts and culture district that is home to the Fox Theatre, the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, Pulitzer Arts Foundation, and The Sheldon.
Cahokia Mounds is a national historic site, state historic site, and UNESCO World Heritage Site, Cahokia Mounds hosts an interpretive center with many models and artifacts related to ancient Mississippian culture.
Mastodon State Historic Site is home to the Kimmswick Bonebed mastodon fossil collection. There is a small museum dedicated to mastodons on site.

Museums

St. Louis Art Museum

The Gateway Arch

The Climatron

The Jewel Box

The City Museum

The Magic House

Mcdonnell Planetarium

Standard J-1 at the Historic Aircraft Restoration Museum

A Burlington Zephyr and a Frisco 2-10-0 on display at the Museum of Transportation

1904 World's Fair Flight Cage at the St. Louis Zoo

Jefferson Barracks Telephone Museum

Art

Center of Creative Arts^[1]
Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis
Foundry Art Centre^[2]
Gallery 210 at University of Missouri–St. Louis^[3]
International Photography Hall of Fame and Museum
Laumeier Sculpture Park
Lemp Neighborhood Arts Center
May Gallery of Webster University^[4]
Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum
Museum of Contemporary Religious Art
National Blues Museum
American Kennel Club's Museum of the Dog^[5]
Pulitzer Arts Foundation
Saint Louis Art Museum
St. Louis Mercantile Library Art Museum
Saint Louis University Museum of Art
The Sheldon Art Galleries
William and Florence Schmidt Art Center

Architecture

Botanic Conservatory

Children's

History

Science, archeology, and natural history

Sports

Transportation

Zoological

Special Interest

Festivals and fairs

Music, theater and performing arts

Powell Hall

The Fox Theatre in the Grand Center arts district

The Muny

Dance

Opera (companies)

Opera (houses)

Peabody Opera House

Choruses

Symphonies

Concert Halls

Theater (companies)

Theater (houses)

Edison Theater at Washington University
The Grandel Theatre
Fox Theatre
Loretto-Hilton Center for the Performing Arts at Webster University
The Muny
Orthwein Theater at Mary Institute and St. Louis Country Day School
The Touhill Performing Arts Center at the University of Missouri - St. Louis

References

^ "Official site". Center of Creative Arts. Retrieved 17 October 2017.
^ "Official site". Foundry Art Centre. Retrieved 17 October 2017.
^ "Gallery 210". University of Missouri-St. Louis. Retrieved 17 October 2017.
^ "May Gallery". Webster University. Retrieved 17 October 2017.
^ "Museum of the Dog". American Kennel Club. Archived from the original on 4 September 2012. Retrieved 17 October 2017.

[1] "Official site". Center of Creative Arts. Retrieved 17 October 2017.

[2] "Official site". Foundry Art Centre. Retrieved 17 October 2017.

[3] "Gallery 210". University of Missouri-St. Louis. Retrieved 17 October 2017.

[4] "May Gallery". Webster University. Retrieved 17 October 2017.

[5] "Museum of the Dog". American Kennel Club. Archived from the original on 4 September 2012. Retrieved 17 October 2017.

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