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On January 18, 2007, the City Museum in St. Louis, Missouri, became home to yet another marvelous creation: The World’s Largest Pencil! At the equivalent of 1,900,000 regular pencils this giant #2 could take a whole lot of standardized tests. The pencil contains 4,000 lbs of...
Skateless Park is a collection of skateboard ramps inside the City Museum…it’s an indoor skateboard park…but with no skateboards allowed! So, what do you do in there? Run! Jump! Dive! Slide! Play! Really, whatever you want, as long as your feet are planted and no wheels...
Photo of a rogue Big Boy statue, the iconic restaurant advertising mascot at the City Museum in St. Louis, Missouri. He wears red checkered overalls, a white t-shirt with the restaurant’s name on it, and has slicked black hair. He holds holds a Big Boy sandwich (double-decker...
So I can’t even tell you how excited I was to see the Midwest Spatula Museum. First, I absolutely love me some crazy museums. Second, I absolutely love when said crazy museums are really just a wall of randomness. Third, I had just watched UHF the night before and so Spatula City...
In the City Museum‘s Museum of Mirth, Mystery and Mayhem you can take a gander at the world’s largest underwear! Those are some mighty big briefs! The world’s largest pair of underwear measure in at seven feet wide and six feet tall. In July 2011 the giant underwear went...
Step right in to Beatnik Bob’s and the Museum of Mirth, Mystery, and Mayhem at the City Museum in St. Louis, Missouri! Play vintage pinball games! Witness Corn Dogs Through the Ages! See an alien! View an atomic fish! Giant Chair Pin Ball Machines Alien Atomic Fish Atomic...
Running through the center of the City Museum in St. Louis, Missouri, is a series of elaborate caves and shoe shafts that wind up the 10-stories inside of the building, from the very top to the very bottom. And at most every turn there is another creature coming out of the foundation ...
I don’t know if I’d call the City Museum a “learning” museum…but I did learn one important fact: being a hamster is hard work! Check out the giant human hamster wheel at the St. Louis, Missouri City Museum! You too can join the rat race and walk or jog (or...
Confession: I am afraid of heights. Actually, I am afraid of falling from heights. I did OK at the top of the Eiffel Tower, for instance. Because I was caged in just so that I was fine. But I am not going anywhere near the glass floored projection on top of the Sears Tower anytime soon...
Tucked inside the Gateway Arch is a small museum dedicated to the days of Lewis and Clark: The Museum of Westward Expansion. The Museum of Westward Expansion explores the nineteenth century expansion from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean with artifacts, photos, animatronic...