I still think this is the best museum ever and wish I had more pics to share, but we only brought in the camera after the....incident. This is City Museum in St Louis and we discovered it by accident, but it is incredible. It is an old shoe factory converted to interactive sculpture park/ art menagerie/musem/ aqautic center etc. We didn't even see all of it after 2 visits, but it is unbelieveable. Our favorite part is the caves...the location of the incident. THe entire section is dark and filled with concrete sculpted to look and feel like a real cave, with mystery tunnels, slides etc and water. Did I mention hidden tunnels and water? Well, Trace is with me and I encourage him to climb through into this smallish tunnel...little did I know at the end of it was a drop of with about 6 inches of water. He went in head first and every bit of him was wet. Luckily our clothes were still in the car as our hotel was about 2 hours south, but we had only brought one pair of shoes...He was a trooper and wore wet sneakers for the last hour rather than leave.
The main staircase and the colrs on the left are the bars to a 3 story slide . Yes we went multiple times. It was quite a work out
A view of the outside courtyard and the roof....we have never been on the roof, but are told it sports the overhanging bus, a ferris wheel and a water park...
Tian climbing into the caves 
The Swiss Family Robinson area - this is where we started and Tian and Trace stared at me with their little mouths hanging open that I would dare climb on the trees. It was awesome. It took about 3 minutes before they believed it was for real - a touch and climb on everything kind of place! The only rule is you must wear shoes :o)
This is right after Tian's sandal slipped through the bars and splashed into the pond below ( yes, there were fish in it too) In this area we are about 15 ft up in the air with only bars to climb on. We had to climb up to get to a metal tube and climb out a tree. This is where Tian lost it and I am sure when people heard my "pep talk" they were ready to help the poor helpless little Chinese girl with the drill sargent mom :o) Hey, she did lookup, squared her shoulders and made it the rest of the way :o)
the floors made we want to redo my bathroom.... and the kitchen and...
millions of shells
Tom escaping the whale
Ty's is in a tunnel that runs the length of the room
Trace in the tunnel
PArt of the sealife section - yup you can climb on everything
interactive sculptures?!?
Tian and Trace refused to climb up this - Tian told me she thought I wouldn't fit! I guess I need to exercise more...
a roller slide - it was a lot of fun until the lip at the bottom...
The outside section. My heart couldn't take going out with Tian and Trace, so Tom headed out with Ty and Trev. Trev even got Tom into the cockpit. It is a pretty scary climb
more outside
The main staircase and the colrs on the left are the bars to a 3 story slide . Yes we went multiple times. It was quite a work out
A view of the outside courtyard and the roof....we have never been on the roof, but are told it sports the overhanging bus, a ferris wheel and a water park...
Tian climbing into the caves 
The Swiss Family Robinson area - this is where we started and Tian and Trace stared at me with their little mouths hanging open that I would dare climb on the trees. It was awesome. It took about 3 minutes before they believed it was for real - a touch and climb on everything kind of place! The only rule is you must wear shoes :o)
This is right after Tian's sandal slipped through the bars and splashed into the pond below ( yes, there were fish in it too) In this area we are about 15 ft up in the air with only bars to climb on. We had to climb up to get to a metal tube and climb out a tree. This is where Tian lost it and I am sure when people heard my "pep talk" they were ready to help the poor helpless little Chinese girl with the drill sargent mom :o) Hey, she did lookup, squared her shoulders and made it the rest of the way :o)
the floors made we want to redo my bathroom.... and the kitchen and...
millions of shells
Tom escaping the whale
Ty's is in a tunnel that runs the length of the room
Trace in the tunnel
PArt of the sealife section - yup you can climb on everything
interactive sculptures?!?
Tian and Trace refused to climb up this - Tian told me she thought I wouldn't fit! I guess I need to exercise more...
a roller slide - it was a lot of fun until the lip at the bottom...
The outside section. My heart couldn't take going out with Tian and Trace, so Tom headed out with Ty and Trev. Trev even got Tom into the cockpit. It is a pretty scary climb
more outside
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