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Midwest
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St. Louis, MO
City Museum
Experiential museum
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Amazing, simply amazing . . . . Just go.
So far as we know, no one's died yet at the City Museum in downtown St. Louis. But it does have a school bus teetering off the edge of the roof, and quite a few more rough edges than your average theme park. And none of them plastic! The artists who started it wanted to recycle parts of old buildings in creative ways (check out the wall of food trays) and give kids and the terminally immature a variety of small and torturous spaces in which to crawl, slide and squirm around.
Knowing this, we shouldn't have been surprised that Bob Casselli, the founder of this "computer-free zone" couldn't wait to take us to the top of this museum that is housed in an old shoe factory. Why? To throw water balloons on people below, of course. And we shouldn't have been surprised that he spoke glowingly of someday salvaging old jail cells to give kids a chance to play "lockup," and of building six-story climbing walls, and rooftop walkways, and, well, you get the idea. Casselli's dreams constitute a virtual vacant lot where imaginations can run wild.
Sometimes we have a hard time saying nice things about our cross-state rival. (They're still testy about losing the World Series.) But we like the City Museum just fine.
Rare Visions and Roadside Revelations
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Bibliography:
On DVD - Rare Visions and Roadside Revelations, "Southern Flavor", KCPT, Kansas City Public Television, 1999-2001.
"Rare Visions and Roadside Revelations" by Randy Mason, Michael Murphy and Don Mayberger, 2002.
"Rare Visions and Roadside Revelations Coast to Coast Travel-o-Pedia" by Randy Mason, et. al., Kansas City Star Books, 2009. |
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