St. Louis City Museum
St. Louis City Museum
I know it’s impossible to turn back time, but don’t you wish that you could relive your childhood? Last week, during my visit to the St. Louis City Museum, I got a chance to do just that. Today, in this speech, I’ll take you on a short tour of the City Museum. As I walk you through this tour of the museum, I’ll focus on three things: the building style, the different attractions, and my overall experience at the City Museum.
Let’s start with the building style, or architecture, of the Museum. The Museum describes itself as an “Eclectic mixture of children’s playground, funhouse, surrealistic pavilion, and architectural marvel.”. The Museum is built almost entirely out of recycled or repurposed architectural and industrial materials, including cranes, old bridges, a human-sized hamster wheel, a bank vault, and even an old school bus. That gives it an irregular personality with the unexpected always lurking around the next corner.
The style of the Museum fits its purpose, which is basically a giant playground filled with attractions that beg you to come interact with them. You can climb on, around, or in almost everything, such as a lifesize Bowhead whale, the man-made ‘enchanted caves’, several 4-foot-wide slinkies, and a ‘skateless park’, which is just like a normal skate park except for it’s made for running, jumping, and climbing, not skateboards. The old school bus I mentioned earlier? It’s mounted half-on and half-off the roof, ten stories up in the air!
At the city museum everything you see isn’t what you would expect and that creates a unique personal experience for everyone. My personal experiences and time at the City Museum were awesome! I climbed, ran, jumped, and crawled to the point where I had bruises just about everywhere, and cartoon-worthy lumps on my head. (If you’re taller than a six-year old, you better watch your head!) My favorite was the ten story slide, which goes from the very top all the way down to the
I know it’s impossible to turn back time, but don’t you wish that you could relive your childhood? Last week, during my visit to the St. Louis City Museum, I got a chance to do just that. Today, in this speech, I’ll take you on a short tour of the City Museum. As I walk you through this tour of the museum, I’ll focus on three things: the building style, the different attractions, and my overall experience at the City Museum.
Let’s start with the building style, or architecture, of the Museum. The Museum describes itself as an “Eclectic mixture of children’s playground, funhouse, surrealistic pavilion, and architectural marvel.”. The Museum is built almost entirely out of recycled or repurposed architectural and industrial materials, including cranes, old bridges, a human-sized hamster wheel, a bank vault, and even an old school bus. That gives it an irregular personality with the unexpected always lurking around the next corner.
The style of the Museum fits its purpose, which is basically a giant playground filled with attractions that beg you to come interact with them. You can climb on, around, or in almost everything, such as a lifesize Bowhead whale, the man-made ‘enchanted caves’, several 4-foot-wide slinkies, and a ‘skateless park’, which is just like a normal skate park except for it’s made for running, jumping, and climbing, not skateboards. The old school bus I mentioned earlier? It’s mounted half-on and half-off the roof, ten stories up in the air!
At the city museum everything you see isn’t what you would expect and that creates a unique personal experience for everyone. My personal experiences and time at the City Museum were awesome! I climbed, ran, jumped, and crawled to the point where I had bruises just about everywhere, and cartoon-worthy lumps on my head. (If you’re taller than a six-year old, you better watch your head!) My favorite was the ten story slide, which goes from the very top all the way down to the