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St. Louis Soccer Hall of Fame: Southwest Garden: Sports: Soccer history from the St. Louis area, currently closed St. Louis Union Station Memories Museum: Downtown West: Railroad: History of the historic railroad station and rail travel in the U.S. St. Louis Cardinals Hall of Fame Museum: Downtown: Sports: St. Louis Science Center: Forest Park ...
St. Louis Art Museum The Gateway Arch The Climatron The Jewel Box The City Museum The Magic House Mcdonnell Planetarium Standard J-1 at the Historic Aircraft Restoration Museum A Burlington Zephyr and a Frisco 2-10-0 on display at the Museum of Transportation 1904 World's Fair Flight Cage at the St. Louis Zoo Jefferson Barracks Telephone Museum
The biology collection contains 200,000 specimens, including both fauna and flora, with the majority of the collection made up of insects. There are two specimens of the extinct great auk, [18] an almost complete skeleton of an extinct moa, passenger pigeons, [19] and a large collection of Quaternary (c.125,000 years ago) specimens from the Yorkshire region including the remains of elephants ...
City Museum is a museum whose exhibits consist largely of repurposed architectural and industrial objects, housed in the former International Shoe building in the Washington Avenue Loft District of St. Louis, Missouri, United States. Opened in October 1997, the museum attracted more than 700,000 visitors in 2010.
Beginning in 1907 and 1915 respectively, the St. Louis Art Museum and the St. Louis Zoo were both publicly funded by property taxes paid by residents of St. Louis City. Zoo chairman Howard Baer and his successor, Circuit Judge Thomas F. McGuire, worked with their supporters to secure the statute to establish the district. H.B. 23 authorized a ...
The Yorkshire Philosophical Society constructed several buildings in the gardens during the 19th and early 20th centuries, including the Yorkshire Museum, one of the first purpose-built museums in Britain. [55] The Yorkshire Museum was designed by architect William Wilkins in a Greek Revival style and was officially opened in February 1830. On ...
York Museums Trust (YMT) is the charity responsible for operating some key museums and galleries in York, England. The trust was founded in 2002 to run York's museums on behalf of the City of York Council. [3] [4] It has seen an increase in annual footfall of 254,000 to the venues since its foundation. [5]
View of the Eads Bridge under construction in 1870, listed as a St. Louis Landmark and National Historic Landmark St. Louis Landmark is a designation of the Board of Aldermen of the City of St. Louis for historic buildings and other sites in St. Louis, Missouri. Listed sites are selected after meeting a combination of criteria, such as whether the site is a cultural resource, near a cultural ...