crawling into space,
but many do not share my fear of heights,
so this is just a walk, or crawl in the park to them, but if
you like your entertainment this way then the City Museum is the place for
you, housed in the former home of the 10-story International Shoe Company, the
sprawling 600,000 square-foot City Museum in St. Louis is quite possibly the
ultimate urban playground ever constructed, the museum is the brainchild of
artist and sculptor Bob Cassilly who opened the space in 1997 after
years of renovation and construction, although Cassilly passed away in 2011,
the museum is perpetually under construction as new features are added or
improved thanks to a ragtag group of 20 artists known affectionately as
the Cassilly
Crew, so what can you find at the City Museum? how about a sky-high
jungle gym making use of two re-purposed air planes, two towering 10-story slides
and numerous multi-floor slides, a rooftop Ferris wheel and a cantilevered
school bus that juts out from the roof, subterranean caves, a pipe organ,
hundreds of feet of tunnels that traverse from floor to floor, an aquarium,
ball pits, a shoe lace factory, a circus arts facility, restaurants, and even a
bar, all the materials used to build the museum including salvaged bridges, old
chimneys, construction cranes, and miles of tile are sourced locally, making
the entire endeavour a massive recycling project, so if you have kids
(or are a kid at heart) and live in the Midwestern United States or have any
other means to get to St. Louis, plan a trip to City Museum, you’re missing out
on life,
looking at this video the kids really seem to enjoy the whole thing, but for me I think I will settle in the bar!
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