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City Museum is a museum in a former International Shoe Company factory and warehouse in the Washington Avenue Loft District of St. Louis, opened in 1997 by artist Bob Cassilly and Gail Cassilly. Its caves, tunnels, slides and climbing structures are built from salvaged architectural and industrial objects, and the roof has a small Ferris wheel and a school bus.
The Basilica of Saint Louis, King of France, known as the Old Cathedral, is a Catholic church built in 1831–1834 in Greek Revival style near the St. Louis riverfront. It was the first cathedral west of the Mississippi and was kept when the surrounding blocks were cleared for the Gateway Arch, which now rises behind it. Pope John XXIII made it a basilica in 1961.
The Cathedral Basilica of Saint Louis is the Catholic cathedral of the Archdiocese of St. Louis, on Lindell Boulevard in the Central West End. Built from 1907 and dedicated in 1914, it has a Romanesque Revival exterior with a green-tiled dome and two towers. Its interior is covered with mosaics of 41.5 million glass pieces, completed in 1988.
The Saint Louis Science Center is a science museum at the south-east corner of Forest Park, which began as the McDonnell Planetarium in 1963. A skybridge over Interstate 64 links the planetarium to the main building, which has more than 700 hands-on exhibits on the earth and life sciences, physics and technology, a dinosaur hall and a five-storey OMNIMAX dome theatre.
The Missouri History Museum is the history museum of the Missouri Historical Society, founded in 1866, at the northern edge of Forest Park in St. Louis. It occupies the Jefferson Memorial Building, completed in 1913 with profits from the 1904 World's Fair, and its exhibitions cover the history of St. Louis and Missouri, including the fair and Charles Lindbergh.
The Saint Louis Art Museum stands on Art Hill in Forest Park, in the Palace of Fine Arts that Cass Gilbert designed for the 1904 World's Fair; an East Building by David Chipperfield was added in 2013. Its collection runs from ancient and Asian art and European painting to American and contemporary art, with changing exhibitions.
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