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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 ...
The Griot Museum of Black History: St. Louis Place: African-American: Life-size wax figures, art, artifacts and memorabilia to interpret the stories of important African Americans with a regional connection; formerly the Black World History Museum HealthWorks! Kids' Museum St. Louis: Forest Park: Children's: website: Inside the Economy Museum ...
1980 - Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis established. 1981 – Gwen B. Giles is the first woman and first African-American appointed to lead the St. Louis City Assessor's Office. [62] 1982 - Cardinals win World Series, defeating Milwaukee Brewers in seven games; 1986 Express Scripts and Galleria Cinema [54] in business.
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Universities in the area also operate museums of art, such as the Saint Louis University Museum of Art and the Kemper Art Museum at Washington University in St. Louis. The Missouri History Museum, which is located in Forest Park and affiliated with the Missouri Historical Society, offers exhibits on the history of St. Louis. Current exhibits ...
The history of St. Louis began with the settlement of the area by Native American mound builders who lived as part of the Mississippian culture from the 9th century to the 15th century, followed by other migrating tribal groups. Starting in the late 17th century, French explorers arrived.
The Regional Museum of Bitburg-Prüm is housed in a former agricultural school. It contains numerous artifacts of the history of Bitburg and the Eifel Region in general. In the cultural centre Haus Beda are exhibited works of the Düsseldorf painter Fritz von Wille (1860–1941), the Eifel's most widely
The history of St. Louis, Missouri, from 1905 to 1980 saw declines in population and economic basis, particularly after World War II.Although St. Louis made civic improvements in the 1920s and enacted pollution controls in the 1930s, suburban growth accelerated and the city population fell dramatically from the 1950s to the 1980s.