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The Saint Louis Science Center, founded as a planetarium in 1963, is a collection of buildings including a science museum and planetarium in St. Louis, Missouri, on the southeastern corner of Forest Park. With over 750 exhibits in a complex of over 300,000 square feet (28,000 m 2), it is among the largest of its type in the United States.
The Greater St. Louis metropolitan area has many cultural institutions and museums including: The Gateway Arch and the Museum of Westward Expansion . The Museum of Westward Expansion is an underground museum beneath the Gateway Arch focusing on St. Louis' role in the expansion and settling of the United States west of the Mississippi River ...
Orlando Science Center: Orlando, Florida: United States 1955 Pacific Science Center: Seattle: United States 1962 PUCRS Museum of Science and Technology: Porto Alegre: Brazil 1998 Putnam Museum: Davenport, Iowa: United States 1867 Saint Louis Science Center: St. Louis: United States 1963 Saskatchewan Science Centre: Regina, Saskatchewan: Canada 1989
The River des Peres (French: rivière des Pères) (English: / d ʌ ˈ p ɛər /) is a 9.3-mile (15.0 km) [1] metropolitan river in St. Louis, Missouri. It is the backbone of sanitary and storm water systems in the city of St. Louis and portions of St. Louis County. Its largest tributaries are Deer Creek and Gravois Creek. At St. Louis, the ...
Forest Park is a public park in western St. Louis, Missouri.It is a prominent civic center and covers 1,326 acres (5.37 km 2). [1] Opened in 1876, more than a decade after its proposal, the park has hosted several significant events, including the Louisiana Purchase Exposition of 1904 and the 1904 Summer Olympics.
Roberson Museum and Science Center: Binghamton: New York: Yes Yes Yes Yes Rochester Museum & Science Center: Rochester: New York: Yes Yes Yes Yes Roper Mountain Science Center: Greenville: South Carolina: No No Yes Yes Roseville Utility Exploration Center [5] [6] Roseville: California: No Yes Yes No Saint Louis Science Center: Saint Louis ...
The Shaw Nature Reserve was started by the Missouri Botanical Garden in 1925 as a place to store plants away from the pollution of the city. The air in St. Louis later cleared up, and the reserve has continued to be open to the public for enjoyment, research, and education ever since.
Mill Creek Valley was a historic neighborhood located in the central corridor between 20th Street and Saint Louis University in St. Louis, Missouri. [1] European settlement began in the 18th century with mills established along La Petite Rivière, now known as Mill Creek. It became an industrial and railroad center in the 19th century.