Experience a museum with a difference; the St. Louis City Museum is not about the silent halls and orderly corridors of a regular museum yet it stays true to the purpose of educating and enlightening its visitors. Built on a 600,000 square foot area that was once the site of a former International Shoe Company, this museum is a mix of a child’s playhouse, an artistic sculpture and an intellectual institution.
 
The material that was used in the construction of the museum was sourced from discarded material found in the city dumps. In fact the museum can boast of being able to recycle old chimneys, wrecked planes and even construction cranes. This bizarre source of construction material truly emphasizes the urban roots of the city museum.  

Among some of the popular sections of the museum are the Enchanted Caves, built inside the conveyer tunnel of the shoe factory. This exhibit showcases artistic talents of a dozen sculptors as they try and recreate mysteries of a pre historic era.

The MonstroCity exhibit is perhaps the world’s most innovative children’s play area, built out of two light aircraft, a fire engine and other waste material this interactive sculpture welcomes visitors to climb and take in the impressive view it presents from the top. Many other enclosures that reflect this refreshing new concept of a museum can be seen at the St. Louis City Museum, including the World Aquarium, Toddler Town, Art City, Museum of Mirth, Mystery and Mayhem, Tiny Train Town Model Railroad and Circus Day.

As a St. Louis MO hotel located in the heart of the city’s Downtown area, the Millennium Hotel St. Louis enables you to visit this uniquely urban museum as well as a host of other attractions in the city.