The 1924 Wurlitzer Pipe Organ once played in the Rivoli Theater in New York City. Thanks to a team of dedicated movers and restorers, it's sonorous tunes now form a chorus with the City Museum's...
Check out City Museum's collection of vintage (working) shoelace machines from the St. Louis-based Alox Manufacturing Company. Some of the machines now in service were last used to make bootstraps for...
Scurry through a treehouse, squirm though an underground tunnel or stroll through the belly of a whale. Come face-to-face with real and imagined wildlife. The Enchanted Forest is an oceanic...
"For the Blind Man in the Dark Room Looking for the Black Cat That Isn't There' explores the speculative nature of knowledge and insists on the importance of curiosity and the things we don't...
At 'Curious George: Let's Get Curious,' kids can step into the world of Curious George and satisfy their curiosity in science, math and engineering through experience and problem solving just like...
Featuring a fascinating collection of architectural relics, Architecture Hall represents the extensive collection efforts of exhibit curator Bruce Gerrie.
The outdoor collection features 27 diesel or other internal combustion locomotives, 10 electrics, one gas-turbine, 45 freight cars, 31 passenger train cars, plus street, interurban and rapid transit...
Create your own work of art or watch professional artists demonstrate their craft! 'Art City' features an ever-changing array of artists, painters, potters and sculptors at work. The Glass Studio...
From the collection of John Frank Lesser, these posters range from an 1845 Russian announcement for a performance of Rossini's 'Il Barbiere di Siviglia' to the 2003 season poster for Opera Theatre of...
This 13,500 square ft. aquatic waterworld houses over 10,000 creatures! The columns have become giant sea shells with castles and tunnels throughout! The aquarium houses fish, snakes, eels, turtles...
The Creation Station is a hands-on learning environment dedicated to introducing children to all modes of transportation while focusing on developing and enriching the primary early learning skills.
The works of the 'Cosmic Tears' series are based on a test by the artist that meditates on the inevitable mix of emotions that accompanies the act of creation, and the relationship of the individual...
Get an introduction to the Watkins family and their many, 19th century ventures, including raising livestock, planting extensive orchards and operating a dairy.
Gary Cooper was the only person that Alvin York trusted to portray his story from the Great War. York insisted that if Cooper was not part of the movie, he would not authorize the film. Cooper's 1941...
The permanent gallery of the Museum explores the musical legacies of seminal jazz legends, cultural ambassadors and American icons Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, Ella Fitzgerald and Kansas City's...
This show will be the first major exhibition to feature traditional Japanese screens on paper or silk along with modern and contemporary examples in less orthodox media such as lacquer and ceramic...
At the beginning of the 20th century a conflict erupted in Europe that rapidly escalated into a war of unprecedented destruction and bloodshed. About 65 million soldiers fought, and over 9 million of...
The 7 artists in this exhibit created works based on the idea of the transition point between natural and manufactured things. These images aren't meant to be of perfect cohabitation with nature, but...
This exhibition explores the idea of reciprocity between artists and their community. Culled from the Kemper Museum's permanent collection, the included works are by area artists and subtly reveal how...
This iconic art family has been creating paintings for over 100 years. They have influenced American painting from their homes in Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania and Maine.
The Center has a permanent exhibit area which features interactive exhibits on site geology, local flora and fauna of the early 19th century, Hopewell Indians, Osage Indians, Lewis and Clark, Fort...