Where do you take two kids on spring break that is *not* Florida?  

City Museum in St Louis is a very unique place.  The eclectic collection of attractions mainly for children was opened in 1997.

We enjoyed the adventure immensely.  The entire museum if composed of recycled elements of buildings.   Everything from fuselages of old planes, old busses, anything that might have served its useful  life was reclaimed and reused in this one of a kind exhibit.

The City Museum website touts that there is over 600,000 square feet of exhibit space.  Many of the exhibits are active where kids can crawl, climb, jump, paint, walk, run to experience them.

It is a far cry from a Disney attraction. Disney wants to queue participants, tell them what to see, make them sit in a specific place and time the entire experience.  Let’s just say Disney and theme parks in general are very programmed and do not allow you to experience in a free form environment.  City  Museum is very free form.  You experience what you want when you want it.  There are no directional signs it is free form kids entertainment.

We found this to be a quite rewarding place to visit. City Museum in present times now because we are all being taught/told that we need to reuse and conserve because of the US current economic situation.

Below is a short video of our experience.

What would Walt Disney think of City Museum?