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My cousin had recommended City Museum, Steph had heard great things about City Museum and when our neighbor back in Kentucky<\/a>\u00a0heard we were going to St. Louis he said, “oh…you HAVE<\/strong><\/em> to go to City Museum!” \u00a0And so we had no choice…we would have to endure another museum. \u00a0We have been to so many museums and we have enjoyed almost all of them and always learned something. Would we enjoy this one and would we learn anything? Yes and yes!
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We show up downtown and there are a couple orange vested guys directing traffic into a $10\/day parking garage. \u00a0Twenty yards beyond them is a sign for $2 all day parking in a lot that has plenty of spaces available. \u00a0We picked the $2 one and went in to buy our tickets. \u00a0We opted to pay the extra $5\/person for access to the rooftop which I think we all agreed was worth it. \u00a0They do not have any maps of the museum which turns out to be quite brilliant. \u00a0What is this museum? \u00a0You know how kids want to climb on everything when you are at a museum, or zoo, or grocery store or church or wherever but you constantly have to tell them not to? \u00a0City Museum is NOT that….it’s the opposite of that. \u00a0With only a couple of exceptions, if you find a hole to crawl in or something that looks climbable or something you can slide your butt on then go ahead and crawl in it, climb it and slide down it!!! \u00a0It is a very hard place to describe…I think you must experience it to even start to understand it. \u00a0But I will try to describe it a bit.<\/p>\n

The roof top has an old school bus hanging precariously over the edge of the building. \u00a0You can climb in the bus, take the wheel and even open the door to look 10 stories down to the sidewalk! \u00a0There is a Ferris wheel, some giant slides, and lots of metal structures. \u00a0There are tubes made from giant metal screens, funky shaped pods and this giant dome in which you could scale the inside of the dome in a wire frame to access a huge, human sized chandelier hanging from the ceiling. \u00a0You can climb on EVERYTHING. \u00a0From the roof top you can take the “10 story slide” down into the main museum area. \u00a0Brielle and I did not try it but apparently it was not as thrilling as it sounds.
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