Missouri History Museum · Forest Park
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.
- Opens
- December 13, 2025
- Closes
- May 31, 2027
America's best urban park turns 150 years young in 2026. Over the course of the last century and a half, Forest Park has hosted pivotal moments in St. Louis history: the 1904 World's Fair, Charles Lindbergh's 1927 speech to more than 100,000 people following his historic flight across the Atlantic, and even a surprise Janis Joplin concert in 1968. But just as important, Forest Park is the setting for countless everyday stories shared by St. Louisans: sledding down Art Hill, exploring the Balloon Glow, and visiting the zoo and museums.
Yours Forever: Forest Park at 150 will explore how St. Louisans have used and adapted the park throughout its history and the moments and memories — big and small — that make it special.
Gallery
7 items
Washington Park Cemetery Card Index
Name-index cards from the historically Black cemetery in Berkeley, MO, operated 1920–1989.
2 items
Sievers Studio Collection
Commercial photography by Sievers Studio — banquets, conferences, conventions, retirement luncheons, and civic events in mid-century St. Louis.
1 items
Loyal Legion Portrait Albums
Studio portraits of Civil War veterans who became members of the Loyal Legion in the decades after the war.
1 items
Clark Family Collection, 1766–1991
Manuscripts from the William Clark family — correspondence, business records, and frontier-era documents spanning more than two centuries.