St. Louis Metro Area Museums

The St. Louis Metro area has a wide variety of museums, with many of them free to the public. Spend a day in each or spend a day seeing all, you will enjoy any that you choose! The Moto Museum, a unique motorcycle museum, will thrill those who love all things shiny and fast! For those who enjoy St. Louis history, visit the Campbell House, the Tower Grove House, the Thomas Sappington House, Daniel Boone's home or the Hawken House. These are homes of some of the first St. Louisans and have been restored to portray the time when they lived in the homes.

Between 1821 and 1826, St. Charles Missouri was the site of Missouri's first State Capitol. A museum is in the exact building that housed the Capital and depicts it's use during that time period. Another museum is The Soldiers Memorial Military Museum. Located in downtown St. Louis, it has a large display of memorabilia and honors those St. Louisans who died in World War I. The Magic House is a wonderful hands on museum and will delight children of all ages! And a visit to the St. Louis Art Museum is a must for lovers of art. It is housed in the only building that still remains from the 1904 World's Fair.

Check below to find the perfect museum for your day out!

Alton Museum of History and Art
Alton Museum of History and Art - The Alton Museum of History and Art showcases the art and history of the citizens of the Alton area. It is located on the SIU Dental School campus in Alton Illinois. - More Info Tags: 62002, Alton Illinois, Museums
Cahokia Mounds
Cahokia Mounds - Cahokia Mounds is an early Mississippian civilization archeological treasure! It is located in Collinsville, Illinois. - More Info Tags: 62201, 62234, Collinsville Illinois, Attractions, Museums
Camp River Dubois
Camp River Dubois - The Camp River Dubois was the winter camp for Lewis and Clark before the expedition began. Featured there is a museum with exhibitions including a 55-foot full scale replica of the keel boat and a replica of Fort. - More Info Tags: 62048, Hartford Illinois, Museums
The Campbell House Museum
Campbell House Museum - The Campbell House Museum was once the home of prominent St. Louis businessman Robert Campbell and his family from 1854 to 1938. Today it is a St. Louis historic treasure and landmark and is located in downtown St. Louis Missouri. - More Info Tags: 63103, City of St Louis Missouri, Downtown St Louis, Museums
Chatillon-DeMenil Mansion
Chatillon-DeMenil Mansion - The Chatillon-DeMenil Mansion is a historic home built 1848. Today it is a museum and a features a cafe. It is located in the Benton Park Neighborhood of the City of St. Louis, Missouri. - More Info Tags: 63118, City of St Louis Missouri, Museums
City Museum
City Museum - The City Museum is a St. Louis children's attraction that adults will enjoy just as much, and is located in the city of St. Louis Missouri. - More Info Tags: 63103, Attractions, City of St Louis Missouri, Downtown St Louis, Museums
Colonel Benjamin Stephenson House
Colonel Benjamin Stephenson House - Colonel Benjamin Stephenson House was the home of one of the founders of Edwardsville, Illinois. - More Info Tags: 62025, Edwardsville Illinois, Museums
Contemporary Art Museum St Louis
Contemporary Art Museum St Louis - The Contemporary Art Museum St Louis is an attraction located in the Grand Center Arts District in the City of St Louis Missouri. - More Info Tags: 63108, City of St Louis Missouri, Museums
Daniel Boone Home
Daniel Boone Home - The Daniel Boone Home was the Missouri home of the great frontiersman, Daniel Boone and his family. It is located near Defiance, Missouri. - More Info Tags: 63341, 63332, Museums
The Edwardsville Children's Museum
Edwardsville Childrens Museum - The Edwardsville Children's Museum, located in Edwardsville Illinois is a educational enrichment museum for children. It is housed in the historic Leclaire Academy building. - More Info Tags: 62025, Edwardsville Illinois, Museums
Emma Kunz House
Emma Kunz House - The Emma Kunz House is a restored 1830s home that is modeled after the German street homes that were built in Europe during the 19th-century and is located in Belleville, Illinois. - More Info Tags: 62220, Belleville Illinois, Museums
Eugene Field House
Eugene Field House - Eugene Field House was the home of the children's poet, Eugene Field and his father Roswell Field, an important lawyer in the Dred Scott slavery case. Today it is a toy museum and a National Historic Landmark located in the city of St. Louis, Missouri. - More Info Tags: 63102, City of St Louis Missouri, Downtown St Louis, Museums
Faust Park Historic Village - The Faust Park Historic Village is a "heritage museum" being a collection of nineteenth century historic homes and buildings that have been moved to Faust Park to preserve the heritage of St Louis County. Many of the buildings and homes can be toured. - More Info Tags: 63017, Chesterfield Missouri, Museums
First Missouri State Capitol State Historic Site
First Missouri State Capitol State Historic Site - The First Missouri State Capitol State Historic Site is the location of Missouri's first state capitol until the one in Jefferson City could be completed. It is located in Historic St. Charles, Missouri. - More Info Tags: 63301, Museums, St Charles City
Gateway Arch National Park
Gateway Arch National Park - Gateway Arch National Park is located in Downtown St. Louis and includes the Gateway Arch, the Old Courthouse and the Museum at the Gateway Arch. - More Info Tags: 63102, City of St Louis Missouri, Museums
Glen Carbon Heritage Museum
Glen Carbon Heritage Museum - Information on the Glen Carbon Heritage Museum featuring the history of Glen Carbon Illinois. - More Info Tags: 62034, Glen Carbon Illinois, Museums
Greater St Louis Air and Space Museum
Greater St Louis Air and Space Museum - The Greater St. Louis Air and Space Museum is located in Cahokia, Illinois at the St. Louis Downtown Airport in one of the two historic Curtiss-Wright Hangers. - More Info Tags: 62206, Cahokia Illinois, Museums
The Griot Museum of Black History & Culture
Griot Museum of Black History & Culture - The Griot Museum of Black History & Culture is located in the St. Louis Place Neighborhood in the City of St. Louis, Missouri and is the premiere museum in the region on African-American history. - More Info Tags: 63106, City of St Louis Missouri, Museums
Harney Mansion
Harney Mansion - The Harney Mansion located Sullivan, Missouri is on the National Register of Historic places and was the home of General William S. Harney, a Civil War general. - More Info Tags: 63080, Museums, Sullivan Missouri
Hawken House
Hawken House - The Hawken House was built by Christopher Hawken, the son of Jacob Hawken who produced the famous Hawken Rifle, the "gun that settled the west." The house is located in Webster Groves, Missouri. - More Info Tags: 63119, Museums, Webster Groves Missouri
Historic Cahokia Courthouse
Historic Cahokia Courthouse - The Historic Cahokia Courthouse was built in 1740 and is an example of French Creole architecture, one of the few examples left in the United States. It is located in St. Clair County in Cahokia, Illinois. - More Info Tags: 62206, Cahokia Illinois, Museums
Historic Hanley House
Historic Hanley House - The Historic Hanley House was built in 1855 and originally sat on a one hundred acre farm. Members of the Martin Franklin Hanley family occupied the home for 113 years before it was given to Clayton, Missouri for a historical museum. - More Info Tags: 63105, Clayton Missouri, Museums
Holocaust Museum and Learning Center
Holocaust Museum and Learning Center - The Holocaust Museum and Learning Center features artifacts and photographs from St. Louis Holocaust survivors and is located in St. Louis County Missouri. - More Info Tags: 63146, Museums
Boeing St Louis
James S. McDonnell Prologue Room - The James S. McDonnell Prologue Room is in the lobby of Building 100 which is part of Boeing's Integrated Defense Systems. The Prologue Room features the history of aeronautics in St. Louis and the United States. - More Info Tags: 63134, Museums
Jesse James Wax Museum
Jesse James Wax Museum - Jesse James Wax Museum features a large collection of Jesse James and his gang's belongings and fire arms. - More Info Tags: Museums
John Colter Museum and Visitor Center
John Colter Museum and Visitor Center - John Colter Museum and Visitor Center is located in New Haven Missouri. The museum contains art exhibits featuring John Colter and the Lewis and Clark Expedition as well as Native American artifacts and Missouri River history. - More Info Tags: 63068, Museums, New Haven Missouri
Katherine Dunham Museum
Katherine Dunham Museum - The Katherine Dunham Museum is located in East St Louis Illinois and houses extensive collections of costumes, mementos and art of Miss Dunham's. - More Info Tags: 62201, East St Louis Illinois, Museums
Labor and Industry Museum
Labor and Industry Museum - The Labor and Industry Museum chronicles the contributions the Belleville Illinois area made to the nation's industrial movement. - More Info Tags: 62220, Belleville Illinois, Museums
Lewis and Clark Boathouse and Nature Center
Lewis and Clark Boathouse and Nature Center - The Lewis and Clark Boathouse and Nature Center features artifacts and information from the famous journey Lewis and Clark made up the Missouri River. It is a St Louis attractions located in St Charles Missouri. - More Info Tags: 63301, Museums, St Charles City
The Magic House
Magic House - The Magic House is a superb "hands-on" museum for children of all ages located in Kirkwood Missouri. - More Info Tags: 63122, Kirkwood Missouri, Museums
Martin-Boismenue House
Martin-Boismenue House - The Martin-Boismenue House, a French Creole home built in 1790, is located in East Carondelet, Illinois. - More Info Tags: 62240, East Carondelet Illinois, Museums
Maryville Heritage Museum
Maryville Heritage Museum - The Maryville Heritage Museum features items that showcase the history of the citizens of Maryville Illinois. - More Info Tags: 62062, Maryville Illinois, Museums
Mastodon State Historic Site
Mastodon State Historic Site - Located in Jefferson County in Imperial, Missouri, Mastodon State Historic Site is on the National Register of Historic Places because of the important archaeological and paleontological finds discovered at the park. - More Info Tags: 63052, Museums
Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum
Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum - The Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum is a collection of art from the 19th through the 21st centuries of American and European artists. It is located on the campus of Washington University in St Louis Missouri. - More Info Tags: 63130, Museums, University City Missouri
Missouri Civil War Museum
Missouri Civil War Museum - The Missouri Civil War Museum is located on the grounds of Jefferson Barracks in the restored Post Exchange and Gymnasium Building and features items from both the Union and Confederate militarys. - More Info Tags: 63125, Lemay Missouri, Museums
Missouri History Museum
Missouri History Museum - The Missouri History Museum features permanent exhibits on the 1904 World's Fair, on history of the City of St. Louis - past and present, and has a life-size replica of Charles Lindbergh's airplane - The Spirit of St. Louis in the McDermott Hall. It is located in Forest Park, in St. Louis, Missouri. - More Info Tags: 63112, City of St Louis Missouri, Museums
Missouri Meerschaum Museum
Missouri Meerschaum Museum - Missouri Meerschaum Museum, is located in the Missouri Meerschaum Corn Cob Pipe Factory in Washington Missouri which was established in 1869, and is the oldest corn cob pipe manufacturer in the United States. - More Info Tags: 63090, Museums, Washington Missouri
The Moto Museum
Moto Museum - The Moto Museum is a the personal motorcycle collection of Steve Smith located in the Grand Center in the City of St Louis Missouri. - More Info Tags: 63103, City of St Louis Missouri, Museums
Museum at the Gateway Arch
Museum at the Gateway Arch - The Museum at the Gateway Arch is located below the Gateway Arch. And by "below" we mean "underground!" - More Info Tags: 63102, Attractions, City of St Louis Missouri, Downtown St Louis, Museums
The National Great Rivers Museum
National Great Rivers Museum - The National Great Rivers Museum is located at the Melvin Price Locks and Dam in Alton Illinois. It features exhibits on the importance of the Mississippi River to the people and wildlife who live near it. - More Info Tags: 62002, Alton Illinois, Museums
National Museum of Transportation
National Museum of Transportation - The National Museum of Transportation features exhibits of all modes of transportation, ranging from trains to tugboats and everything in between! It is a St Louis attraction located in West St Louis County Missouri. - More Info Tags: 63122, Attractions, Museums
Old Courthouse
Old Courthouse - The Old Courthouse features a museum of memorabilia of the famous Dred Scott trial and has two courtrooms set up to represent two separate time periods. It is located in the city of St Louis Missouri. - More Info Tags: 63102, City of St Louis Missouri, Downtown St Louis, Museums
Old Fire Engine Museum
Old Fire Engine Museum - The Old Fire Engine Museum is located in Granite City Illinois chronicles the history of firefighting. - More Info Tags: 62040, Granite City Illinois, Museums
Old Six Mile Museum in the Emmert-Zippel House
Old Six Mile Museum in the Emmert-Zippel House - The Old Six Mile Museum is housed in the Emmert-Zippel House which is located in Granite City, Illinois. - More Info Tags: 62040, Granite City Illinois, Museums
Payne-Gentry House
Payne-Gentry House - The Payne-Gentry House is a historic museum chronicling the more than 100 years the Payne-Gentry family lived in the home. It is located in Bridgeton, Missouri in North St. Louis County. - More Info Tags: 63044, Bridgeton Missouri, Museums
Samuel Cupples House
Samuel Cupples House - The Samuel Cupples House, a beautiful example of Romanesque architecture, was the home of one of St. Louis' prominent businessmen during the late 19th century. Today it is one of several museums located on the campus of St. Louis University in the city of St Louis Missouri . - More Info Tags: 63108, City of St Louis Missouri, Museums
Scott Joplin House State Historic Site
Scott Joplin House State Historic Site - Scott Joplin, the King of Ragtime, brought his new wife to St. Louis in 1900 and moved into this brick flat located in downtown St. Louis Missouri. - More Info Tags: 63103, City of St Louis Missouri, Downtown St Louis, Museums
Soldiers Memorial Military Museum
Soldiers Memorial Military Museum - The Soldiers Memorial Military Museum was built to honor the St. Louisans who served and lost their lives in World War I. It is located in downtown St. Louis Missouri. - More Info Tags: 63103, City of St Louis Missouri, Downtown St Louis, Museums
St Charles County Heritage Museum
St Charles County Heritage Museum - The St. Charles County Heritage Museum is located in a restored brick two-story home built in 1857 by Lawrence Cribbin and features the history of the property, as well as St. Charles County. - More Info Tags: 63303, Museums, St Charles City
St Clair County Historical Society
St Clair County Historical Society - Information on the St Clair County Historical Society which houses information and artifacts about the St Clair County Illinois area. - More Info Tags: 62220, Belleville Illinois, Museums
StLouis Art Museum
St Louis Art Museum - The St Louis Art Museum, located in Forest Park, is housed in the only building left from the 1904 World's Fair. It is located in the city of St Louis Missouri. - More Info Tags: 63110, Attractions, City of St Louis Missouri, Museums
St Louis Science Center
St Louis Science Center - At the St. Louis Science Center, located in the City of St. Louis, visitors can enjoy "hands on" exhibits in many areas of Science and an OMNIMAX movie! - More Info Tags: 63110, Attractions, City of St Louis Missouri, Museums
St Louis University Museum of Art
St Louis University Museum of Art - St Louis University Museum of Art is one of six museums on the University's campus. It is located in the city of St Louis Missouri. - More Info Tags: 63108, City of St Louis Missouri, Museums
Taille De Noyer
Taille De Noyer - Taille De Noyer, a 22 room historic home and museum, was originally built in 1790 as a two-room log cabin for fur trappers. It is located on the campus of McCluer High School in Florissant Missouri. - More Info Tags: 63031, Florissant Missouri, Museums
Thomas C Fletcher House
Thomas C Fletcher House - The Thomas C Fletcher House is the home of Missouri's 18th state governor and is located in Hillsboro Missouri. - More Info Tags: 63050, Hillsboro Missouri, Museums
Thomas Sappington Historic House
Thomas Sappington Historic House - The Thomas Sappington Historic House was built in 1808 by slave labor. It is a St Louis attraction located in Crestwood Missouri. - More Info Tags: 63126, Museums
Thornhill Farm
Thornhill Farm - Thornhill Farm, the family home of Missouri's second Governor, Frederick Bates, has been restored and is a historic museum. It is located in Faust Park, in the Faust Historical Village, in Chesterfield Missouri. - More Info Tags: 63017, Chesterfield Missouri, Museums
Tower Grove House
Tower Grove House - The Tower Grove House was built in 1849 by Henry Shaw for his personal residence. It is located in the Missouri Botanical Garden in St Louis Missouri. - More Info Tags: 63110, City of St Louis Missouri, Museums
Village of Elsah Museum
Village of Elsah Museum - The Village of Elsah Museum chronicles the history of the village from its founding in 1853. - More Info Tags: 62028, Elsah Illinois, Museums
Wax Museum
Wax Museum St Louis - The Wax Museum of St. Louis is located in Historic Laclede's Landing in downtown St. Louis Missouri. - More Info Tags: 63102, City of St Louis Missouri, Downtown St Louis, Museums
Wood River Museum and Visitor's Center
Wood River Museum and Visitor's Center - Information on the Wood River Museum and Visitor's Center which is free to the public. - More Info Tags: 62095, Museums, Wood River Illinois
Wood River Refinery History Museum
Wood River Refinery History Museum - Information on the Wood River Refinery History Museum which chronicles the history of the refinery since 1917. - More Info Tags: 62084, Museums, Roxana Illinois

More Museums

Historic Aircraft Restoration Museum - The Historic Aircraft Restoration Museum is located at the Creve Coeur Airport in Maryland Heights, Missouri. - More Info - Tags: 63146, Maryland Heights Missouri, Museums

Meramec Valley Historical Museum - Meramec Valley Historical Museum, located in Pacific Missouri, documents and preserves the history of the Meramec Valley communities of Pacific, Gray Summit, Labadie, Robertsville, Catawissa and Villa Ridge. - More Info - Tags: 63069, Museums, Pacific Missouri

Mungenast Classic Motorcycles Museum Website - Dave Mungenast's Classic Motorcycles Museum is located in South St. Louis City in the Bevo Mill Neighborhood and has over 200 motorcycles on display. - More Info - Tags: 63116, City of St Louis Missouri, Museums

St Clair Historical Museum - St. Clair Historical Museum features exhibits of a wide variety of artifacts from St. Clair and surrounding areas. - More Info - Tags: 63077, Museums, St Clair Missouri

Veterans Hall of Honor - Veterans Hall of Honor, located in Union Missouri, has displays that honor all Franklin County veterans who have served in our nation's wars. - More Info - Tags: 63084, Museums, Union Missouri

Washington Historical Society Museum - Washington Historical Society Museum has exhibits and artifacts depicting life in Washington Missouri. - More Info - Tags: 63090, Museums, Washington Missouri

World Chess Hall of Fame - The World Chess Hall of Fame and Museum is located in the Central West End Neighborhood of the City of St. Louis, Missouri. The Hall of Fame, created in 1986, features exhibits of tournament memorabilia, medals, trophies, historic chess sets, books, journals, photographs of historic games and chess players, past and present. - More Info - Tags:

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