Midwest · Misuri

City Museum, St. Louis

Cultural Full day difficulty: Moderate with kids: yes

A museum like no other, built inside an old factory in St. Louis: instead of display cases, there are tunnels, ten-story slides, caves, real hanging airplanes, and a castle to climb. Everything is made for climbing, crawling, and sliding; it's an indoor adventure park.

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A sculptor turned this old shoe factory into a giant maze made of salvaged materials: old planes, bridges, chimneys. It's not a museum for looking but for climbing, crawling, and sliding inside the work of art.

With kids

Slide down the ten-story slide
Crawl through metal tunnels that cross from one side of the building to the other
Climb up to the real airplanes hanging on high
Explore the artificial caves without knowing where they lead

Accessibility: All active ages; wear comfortable clothes and knee pads, there's lots of climbing

With family

Get lost together in the maze with no map and no rush
Discover how it was all built from recycled materials
Go up to the rooftop, where there's a Ferris wheel
Take turns going down the longest slides

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