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[travel] St Louis's vibrant interactive art movement
If I told you that one of the most successful integrations of Burningman-style creative energy into mainstream society is in St Louis, Missouri, you'd probably be shocked. It's true, though.
Behold the city museum. It's a giant playground for kids of all ages. It's called the city museum because it's been constructed with various junk the founder and his disciples found around the city. The scale of the museum is epic -- during particularly bad economic times, the founder managed to buy a ~10 story factory building in the downtown area. Most of the building is built out now, with 8-story slides, 100 ft long human-sized hamster trails, a life-sized whale, a skateless skate park, a circus academy, and a ridiculously large number of tight spaces and lawsuit-inducing concrete tunnels. The building also contains several restaurants, live-work lofts, and a very good vintage clothing store.
It's normally full of families and high school students, but on Friday nights the place is open until 1am, which means all the local freaks and hipsters can congregate, party, and sneak off into little corners and do naughty things.
Yes, this is in St Louis.
They have some big arch thing here too.
The city was very prominent in the early 1900s. It held the 3rd Olympics in 1904 as well as the World's Fair that same year. It had what was once the US's busiest railway terminal, back when it was the hub for most major routes to the western US.
Behold the city museum. It's a giant playground for kids of all ages. It's called the city museum because it's been constructed with various junk the founder and his disciples found around the city. The scale of the museum is epic -- during particularly bad economic times, the founder managed to buy a ~10 story factory building in the downtown area. Most of the building is built out now, with 8-story slides, 100 ft long human-sized hamster trails, a life-sized whale, a skateless skate park, a circus academy, and a ridiculously large number of tight spaces and lawsuit-inducing concrete tunnels. The building also contains several restaurants, live-work lofts, and a very good vintage clothing store.
It's normally full of families and high school students, but on Friday nights the place is open until 1am, which means all the local freaks and hipsters can congregate, party, and sneak off into little corners and do naughty things.
Yes, this is in St Louis.
They have some big arch thing here too.
The city was very prominent in the early 1900s. It held the 3rd Olympics in 1904 as well as the World's Fair that same year. It had what was once the US's busiest railway terminal, back when it was the hub for most major routes to the western US.
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