The big top is back! Opening Wednesday, Sept. 2, UniverSoul Circus brings its new WE ALL BELONG production to St. Louis, transforming the iconic purple and yellow tent into the city’s hottest destination for affordable family fun. Featuring an all-star cast, pulse-pounding circus thrills, breathtaking stunts and interactive entertainment, the show runs through Sept. 13 at its […]

The Saint Louis Zoo presents Dinoroarus starting Friday, June 19th! The Saint Louis Zoo will transport guests millions of years back in time starting Friday, June 19, at Dinoroarus, a returning, temporary attraction for all-ages. The walk-through experience will feature 20 animatronic dinosaurs and sculptures that will move, roar, spit and chomp their way through the Zoo’s Historic Hill, in […]

Begin Again: 50 Years and Counting marks Laumeier’s 50th anniversary by celebrating five decades of artist commissions and exhibitions. Featuring hundreds of artists and rarely seen works from Laumeier’s collection, the exhibition highlights the Park’s unique position at the intersection of public art, contemporary museum practice, and the natural world. Centering on artworks that have […]

Begin Again: Wak’a Garden is the second installment in Laumeier’s Begin Again series, honoring the Park’s 50-year history of collaborating with artists and supporting new commissions and exhibitions. The organic, amphitheater-shaped sculpture, built from natural materials Laumeier’s grounds, features ceramic hive-shaped vessels and a chemical-free teaching garden. It will serve as a multisensory space for reverence, gathering, educational […]

The Bonsack Gallery Presents Tom Reed: new familiar water August 28 – September 21! The Bonsack Gallery at John Burroughs School will open new familiar water, an exhibition by Tom Reed, on Friday, August 28, with a free public reception from 5:30 to 7:30 pm. The show will remain on view through Monday, September 21. […]

Bellefontaine Cemetery and Arboretum presents Wildwood Valley Garden Walk on September 2 & 16! Discover one of Bellefontaine’s most tranquil spaces on this guided walk-through Wildwood Valley, a true hidden gem nestled between lakes, curving paths, and grassy terraces. Designed to evoke the restorative serenity of nature, this expansive garden blends annuals, perennials, shrubs, and […]

Jefferson Barracks Telephone Museum presents the Character Telephone Exhibit! Winnie-the-Pooh, R2-D2, Big Bird, and Kermit the Frog – these are some of the telephones you’ll see at the Jefferson Barracks Telephone Museum. Housed in a restored 1896 building, the history museum also features an extensive collection of telephones manufactured from the late 1800s through the […]

The National Museum of Transportation is proud to announce a special exhibition celebrating the 100th anniversary of historic Route 66. Titled “Roads, River, Rooms, and Reels,” the exhibit will open to the public on March 14, 2026, and will explore the stories, memories, and modes of travel that shaped America’s most iconic highway and the […]

The geometric and glowing art of HYBYCOZO is coming to St. Louis this spring and summer, on display for daytime visitors of the Missouri Botanical Garden and during special illuminated evening hours throughout the spring and summer. Daytime Experience – “Patterns in Nature: The Art of HYBYCOZO” April 10–September 26 | 9 a.m.–5 p.m. (last […]

The upcoming special exhibition at the Stephen and Peter Sachs Museum explores the myriad ways that different cultures represent plants and gardens through literary media, such as herbals, novels, poems, comics, and other types of stories. Highlighting Garden collections, and using books, images, objects, and botanical specimens, The Literary Garden highlights how authors and creators […]

The St. Louis Aquarium at St. Louis Union Station presents Summer Shell-ebration June 19th – September 7th! All summer long, the aquarium is exploring the amazing world of shell-bearing animals. From armadillos to sea turtles, lobsters to limpets, learn about the wide variety of animals with this unique feature. Whether you’re celebrating a birthday, vacation, […]

Come Face-to-Fin with Earth’s Largest Creature through The Blue Whale Story at the Saint Louis Science Center! The life story of the largest creatures on Earth will come alive at the Saint Louis Science Center as part of a new special exhibition: The Blue Whale Story. The Blue Whale Story, produced and circulated by the […]

This special caravan tour of Bellefontaine Cemetery and Arboretum is designed for individuals experiencing mild to moderate memory loss and the caregivers who support them. Traveling together through the peaceful grounds, the group will follow a guide in their own vehicles and make three stops that invite reflection, conversation, and shared storytelling. At each location, […]

St. Louis Kaplan Feldman Holocaust Museum presents “Nazi’s Next Door: St. Louis Faces Nazism in the 1930s” beginning Friday, June 12th.  An original exhibition created by the St. Louis Kaplan Feldman Holocaust Museum, Nazis Next Door explores the ways in which Missourians, particularly St. Louisans, made the choice to support or resist Nazi ideas of extremism and […]

The 1904 World’s Fair was a fascinating yet complex event that continues to evoke a range of emotions. It was grand and shameful. It was full of fun and full of indignity. Now, 120 years after it opened in St. Louis, the 1904 World’s Fair exhibit at the Missouri History Museum will reintroduce audiences to […]

For more than 150 years, St. Louisans have entrusted the Missouri Historical Society with countless objects: photographs, diaries, home movies, clothing, books – items that future generations can turn in order to help make sense of the past. Some of these pieces mark defining moments in the region’s history such as Missouri’s pivotal role in […]

Marking the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence, this exhibition at the Saint Louis Art Museum features more than 50 works created between 1770 and 2018. Featured works include silver by Paul Revere, paintings by George Caleb Bingham and Benjamin West and prints by Norman Akers and Jacob Lawrence. Picturing Independence […]

This free exhibition at the Saint Louis Art Museum presents exceptional weavings by Aymara artists alongside related works from the Central Andes. Dating primarily to the 18th and 19th centuries, these skirts, mantles and ponchos demonstrate how artists in Bolivia maintained and reinvented ancient artistic practices to express Indigenous identities during the colonial era. While […]

Visions of Antiquity explores the power and persistence of Greek and Roman antiquity in art at the Saint Louis Art Museum, with works ranging from 1500 to the present. Organized into three broad sections – “Knowledge and Order,” “Triumph and Tragedy” and “Remnants and Ruins” – the free exhibition takes a thematic approach to the […]

America’s best urban park turns 150 years young in 2026. Over the course of the last century and a half, Forest Park has hosted pivotal moments in St. Louis history: the 1904 World’s Fair, Charles Lindbergh’s 1927 speech to more than 100,000 people following his historic flight across the Atlantic, and even a surprise Janis […]