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The Missouri State Museum is Missouri's showpiece museum. It was founded in 1919 and is located in Jefferson City, Missouri, inside the state capitol on the ground floor of the building. [1] The museum's mission is to explore Missouri's history and resources to discover connections that inspire the present and enrich the future.
Vision, one of several figures associated with Soldiers' Memorial. The Soldiers Memorial Military Museum in downtown St. Louis, Missouri is a memorial and military museum, at 1315 Chestnut Street, owned by the City of St. Louis and operated by the Missouri Historical Society.
The first Missouri State Fair was held September 9–13 in 1901. One of the most distinctive aspects of the early fairs was the "white city": the 24 acres (97,000 m 2) of tents, each for rent by exhibitors. Odessa Ice Cream was the official ice cream at the Missouri State Fair in the 1930s. [3]: 9
Fire Museum of Missouri, Willow Springs [63] [64] First Due Museum, Hazelwood [65] Fred Bear Museum, Springfield, now incorporated into the Archery Hall of Fame; General Sweeny's Museum of Civil War History, Republic, closed in 2005 [66] International Bowling Museum, St. Louis, moved to Arlington, Texas in 2010; Memoryville USA, Rolla, closed ...
The museum held a grand opening in the new space on 7 December 2014. [5] In the following years the museum received several aircraft for display, including an F-4 in August 2015 and a C-130 from the closed Octave Chanute Aerospace Museum in May 2016. [6] [7] The latter was repainted in European camouflage in July 2017. [8]
The museum is the largest Civil War museum in the state of Missouri with over 22,000 square feet and two floors of exhibits. Displays focus on the state's role during the American Civil War and exhibit hundreds of remarkable artifacts from the Civil War. Additional galleries in the museum focus on the history of Jefferson Barracks, veterans ...
Stacie Peterson, director of exhibitions and collections at the National WWI Museum and Memorial, shows an historical office memo during the unveiling ceremony of a 100-year-old time capsule at ...
The National Historic Landmarks (NHLs) in the U.S. state of Missouri represent Missouri's history from the Lewis and Clark Expedition, through the American Civil War, the Civil Rights Movement, and the Space Age. There are 36 National Historic Landmarks in Missouri. [1]