Missouri History Museum · Forest Park
Exhibitions at Museum.
What's on view, what's coming, and what's recently closed.
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.
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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