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About Me


Housed in the 600,000 square-foot former International Shoe Company, the museum is an eclectic mixture of children's playground, funhouse, surrealistic pavilion, and architectural marvel made out of unique, found objects. The brainchild of internationally acclaimed artist Bob Cassilly, a classically trained sculptor and serial entrepreneur, the museum opened for visitors in 1997 to the riotous approval of young and old alike.Cassilly and his longtime crew of 20 artisans have constructed the museum from the very stuff of the city; and, as a result, it has urban roots deeper than any other institutions'. Reaching no farther than municipal borders for its reclaimed building materials, the CITY MUSEUM boasts features such as old chimneys, salvaged bridges, construction cranes, miles of tile, and even two abandoned planes!"The CITY MUSEUM makes you want to know," says Cassilly. "The point is not to learn every fact, but to say, 'Wow, that's wonderful.' And if it's wonderful, it's worth preserving."

My Interests

Found treasures, dinosaurs, skate ramps, tunnels, caves, slides, fire pits, everydaycircus, World Aquarium, making art, tie-dyes, snowflakes, shoelaces, climbing, crawling, exploring, singing, laughing, flipping, flopping...

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You!
Come visit us! Hours:
Sunday | 11am - 5pm
Monday | 9am - 5pm
Tuesday | 9am - 5pm
Wednesday | 9am - 5pm
Thursday | 9am - 5pm
Friday | 9am - 1am
Saturday | 10am - 1am
Price: $12.00; after 5pm $10.00
* Open on New Year's Day, Memorial Day, Martin Luther King Day, President's Day, Labor Day, July 4th and Veteran's Day. (Closed on Easter, Thanksgiving and Christmas Day).
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My Blog

THE CITY IS MINE!

City Museum Thank You Some of you may remember watching the all-too-dramatic commercials on a local newschannel suggesting that City Museum was going to close. Those r...
Posted by City Museum on Fri, 16 May 2008 06:56:00 PST

KETC | Living St. Louis | City Museum Organ

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vP4YL7EAv7k The organ installed at the City Museum is a theatre pipe organ, made by the Wurlitzer Company in 1924 to accompany silent films. The organ belongs...
Posted by City Museum on Thu, 17 Apr 2008 08:15:00 PST

City Celebration! 2/15

What are you doing on Valentine's Day? Wait. Don't answer that. We don't care--unless, of course, you're coming to City Museum from 9am to 5pm.Valentine's Day Night? Pssh. Invented by Hallmark.But, re...
Posted by City Museum on Tue, 05 Feb 2008 01:58:00 PST

I know something you don’t know...

City Museum is about to get one of the World's Largest Items to join the World's Largest Underpants. Details to follow. Maybe you should have a pad of paper ready. (of course, this could only happen...
Posted by City Museum on Tue, 22 Jan 2008 09:12:00 PST

Hard Hats Required

Regular City Museum-goers understand that, occasionally, some parts of CM will be closed for repairs, rain, or re-construction. And, to keep our visitors safe, sometimes we'll have to close off constr...
Posted by City Museum on Mon, 14 Jan 2008 01:37:00 PST

Hard Hats Required

Regular City Museum-goers understand that, occasionally, some parts of CM will be closed for repairs, rain, or re-construction. And, to keep our visitors safe, sometimes we'll have to close off constr...
Posted by City Museum on Mon, 14 Jan 2008 01:37:00 PST

What’s news...

Have you been to City Museum within the last month? No? Yes? Either way, you probably didn't notice the new, awesome stuff that CM creator Bob Cassilly and his gang have installed. See if you can find...
Posted by City Museum on Fri, 11 Jan 2008 12:11:00 PST

Southern Living at CM

One of the best parts of my job is showing photographers around City Museum. It's not that I have any justifiable right to take credit for City Museum (because I don't) but I always feel that since I'...
Posted by City Museum on Thu, 10 Jan 2008 02:04:00 PST

Resolutions, Shmesolutions.

Unless your resolution was to come to City Museum every available day in the New Year (which is feasible, because we're still open on Wednesdays through Sundays), your resolution might not be up to pa...
Posted by City Museum on Wed, 09 Jan 2008 01:48:00 PST

Back to Reality...

The holidays are officially over, the roads affected by Highway 40 are (according to reporters, "finally") crowded, and school is back in session for most of the students. So, the bloggers thought t...
Posted by City Museum on Mon, 07 Jan 2008 11:24:00 PST