City Museum
Museum · St. Louis, Missouri
A museum at 750 North 16th Street, occupying the former International Shoe Company factory and warehouse, which Bob and Gail Cassilly purchased in 1993. Its features include a life-size walk-through bowhead whale sculpture, the multi-slide "Enchanted Caves", a Wurlitzer pipe organ from a historic New York theater, a rooftop Ferris wheel, and the outdoor "MonstroCity" structure built from repurposed aircraft fuselages and industrial materials. The museum's own site is the only evidence of current operation the research reached, and it cannot establish that on its own word, so nothing here says whether the museum is open now. No base admission price could be retrieved.
History
The museum opened to the public on October 25, 1997, founded by the artist Bob Cassilly with Gail Cassilly. It attracted 300,000 visitors within its first two years and over 700,000 by 2010.
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750 North 16th Street, St. Louis, MO 63103
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