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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.
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 ...
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 statue Apotheosis of St. Louis by Charles Henry Niehaus, created in 1903. Plans to expand the museum, which existed in the 1995 Forest Park Master Plan and the museum's 2000 Strategic Plan, began in earnest in 2005, when the museum board selected the British architect Sir David Chipperfield to design the expansion; Michel Desvigne was selected as landscape architect.
St. Louis is home to the Fox Theatre, located in Grand Center, which presents Broadway shows and concert or speaking events. Other theaters include The Muny, a summer musical theatre located in Forest Park and founded in 1919; the Repertory Theatre of St. Louis, the city's major regional theatre, founded in 1966; Opera Theatre of Saint Louis, an annual summer opera festival co-founded by ...
The St. Louis African Arts Festival (also known as STLAAF or St. Louis African Arts Fair) is an annual arts and cultural festival in St. Louis, Missouri, which has been running since 1991. The STLAAF is a three-day event that takes place over the Memorial Day weekend .
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The Missouri History Museum in Forest Park, St. Louis, Missouri, showcases Missouri history. It is operated by the Missouri Historical Society, which was founded in 1866. Museum admission is free through a public subsidy by the Metropolitan Zoological Park and Museum District.