Missouri History Museum · Forest Park
History lives in Forest Park.
Free admission, every day. Exhibitions, family programs, and the long view of a city that keeps reinventing itself.
Hours
- Tuesday – Sunday10am – 5pm
- Thursday10am – 8pm
- MondayClosed
Address
5700 Lindell Boulevard
St. Louis, MO 63112
Admission
Free general admission. Some special exhibitions ticketed.
Parking
Free parking lot, additional Forest Park lots within walking distance.
MUSEUM EXHIBITIONS
On view at the Museum.
Mill Creek: Black Metropolis
The neighborhood that was a city within a city — 20,000 people, 5,000 buildings, the birthplace of ragtime — and its intentional erasure from the St. Louis landscape in 1959.
Missouri History Museum · Forest Park
Made in St. Louis
The food we eat, the clothes we wear, the tools we use — and how St. Louis–made products quietly reshaped the world beyond the river.
Missouri History Museum · Forest Park · inside Collected
Yours Forever: Forest Park at 150
Sledding Art Hill, watching the Balloon Glow, Lindbergh's 1927 speech to 100,000 people, a surprise Janis Joplin set — and 150 years of everyday St. Louis Saturdays.
Missouri History Museum · Forest Park
A Marvel in Motion
The Ferris wheel that anchored the 1904 World's Fair — its journey from Chicago, the urban legends about its burial, and a near-scale replica car you can step inside.
Missouri History Museum · Forest Park · 1904 World's Fair gallery
Collected
St. Louis's 150-year archive of entrusted objects — maps, toys, T-shirts, paintings, home movies — brought to life one artifact at a time.
Missouri History Museum · Forest Park
You Are Here
The Missouri Historical Society at 150-plus — what's changed across the three buildings, what's being preserved, and how visitors can help write the next chapter.
Missouri History Museum · Forest Park
UPCOMING
At the Museum this season.
Museum · Sun, May 31 · 10:00am – 12:00pm
Mill Creek Valley Walking Tour
A guided walk through the bulldozed neighborhood's surviving boundaries, with maps and photographs.
Museum · Fri, Jun 5 · 5:30pm – 8:30pm
Twilight Thursdays: Brass Roots St. Louis
Free outdoor concert series on the Museum's front lawn. Food trucks and family-friendly.
Museum · Sun, Jun 28 · 10:30am – 11:15am
Cuentos En Español En El Museo
Bilingual storytime for children and families, every fourth Saturday — stories drawn from collections related to St. Louis's Latino communities.
WHAT THE MUSEUM DOES
A free civic museum that argues for St. Louis as a place of consequence.
From Mill Creek Valley to the Cardinals to the Veiled Prophet — the Missouri History Museum holds the city's hardest conversations and its most public ones, side by side. Exhibitions, programs, and the permanent History Clubhouse for kids are all free.
LEARN WITH US
History for every age.
From the History Clubhouse to paid teen fellowships to monthly lectures, the Society's education programs are designed for a learner's whole life.
Ages 0–5 and caregivers
Early Childhood
Storytimes, sensory programs, and the History Clubhouse — designed for the youngest visitors and the adults who bring them.
Educators, students, school groups
PreK–12
Field trips, in-classroom kits, and standards-aligned units co-developed with St. Louis-area teachers.
Ages 14–18
Teens Make History
A year-round program that pays St. Louis teens to research, write, and present the history of their neighborhoods.
Adult learners, college students, lifelong learners
College & Adult
Lectures, walking tours, research orientations, and the St. Louis Historians Speakers Series.
Adult groups, professional groups, community organizations
Group Programs
Custom tours and presentations for adult groups — book clubs, retired teachers, civic clubs, professional associations.