PEORIA -- When is the last time you or your child swung on a rope? Crawled through a cave-tunnel? Climbed on a jet plane?
The City Museum in St. Louis, Mo., offers all these activities and much, much more. It's a must-see event in St. Louis, especially if you have children, or even without them.
With a ferris wheel on its roof, and a school bus and jet plane nearby, you can't miss finding it downtown.
Let's hope the new museum in Peoria, now under construction, is half as much fun, half as interesting.
We took a 9-year-old to the City Museum on a Wednesday, and the place was packed with kids and adults, all having a fabulous time. We spent the day there.
There are several restaurants inside, and for the adults, exhibits of historical St. Louis architectural salvage -- lions, gargoyles saved from the demolition of historic buildings, for example, artifacts salvaged from St. Louis, including its privys, collections of insects and stuffed animals, an aquarium.
Our granddaughter swings on a rope.
The museum is privately owned, and there's a stiff entry fee: a total of $17 for the museum and the roof, an additional fee for the aquarium. That's good: it keeps out the troublemakers.
It doesn't use tax funds, someone who knows the owner said. He used local artists to design the many attractions, which keep changing.
The ferris wheel on the roof.
Check out the website, though it doesn't do justice to the museum, and don't miss it the next time you're in St. Louis.
-- Elaine Hopkins
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