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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.
In 1993, they bought a 250,000-square-foot (23,000 m 2) complex, which included the International Shoe Building, offices and a 10-story warehouse, for 69 cents per square foot. [2] They renovated the site and opened it in 1997 as the City Museum, helping to spark a renovation boom in downtown St. Louis . [ 7 ]
Cementland, St. Louis, outdoor sculpture park, future uncertain since death of creator in 2011; Civilian Conservation Corps Museum, St. Louis, closed in 2008 [3] International Bowling Museum, St. Louis, moved to Arlington, Texas in 2010; National Video Game and Coin-Op Museum, St. Louis, closed in 1999 [4] St. Louis Museum
The following 32 pages are in this category, out of 32 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ... City Museum; Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis; E.
Demolished buildings and structures in St. Louis (31 P) Pages in category "Former buildings and structures in St. Louis" The following 8 pages are in this category, out of 8 total.
The area gets its name from a streetcar turnaround, or "loop", formerly located in the area. [2]Delmar Boulevard was originally known as Morgan Street. According to Norbury L. Wayman in his circa 1980 series History of St. Louis Neighborhoods, [3] the name Delmar was coined when two early landowners living on opposite sides of the road, one from Delaware and one from Maryland, combined the ...
The Saint Louis Art Museum, Missouri History Museum, Jewel Box, Saint Louis Zoo, McDonnell Planetarium, and the Muny are all located in Forest Park, the city's premiere park. The City Museum has a collection of re-purposed architectural and industrial objects constituting a multistory play-land.
Cementland in 2015. Cementland is an incomplete public art exhibit on the 54-acre site of a former cement factory just north of St. Louis, Missouri.The brainchild of sculptor Bob Cassilly, who also created St. Louis' City Museum, it contains giant concrete sculptures and obsolete machinery, and was planned to have navigable waterways, among many other features.