Historical April–May 2000 article. Dates, prices, services and contacts describe the source period; current availability has not been established.
As we went to press on our last issue of the Times, our neighbor, the Missouri History Museum, opened the doors to its expanded edifice, named after a corporate donor, Emerson Electric.
The newly expanded museum now has three additional exhibition halls, a large auditorium, meeting and classrooms, and a restaurant overlooking Forest Park.
The restaurant is run by Patty Long Catering. Along with the expanded facility is a special exhibit: St Louis, A Place in Time.
This exhibit has numerous visual and audio components.
I enjoyed the 50s kitchen, so retro, as well as the wonderful sports memorabilia. Particularly moving to me though were the artifacts dealing with St. Louis’s civil rights history.
The film clip from the Jefferson Bank demonstration was worth my visit, actually several visits.
This exhibit provides an excellent introduction to the way things were and should be particularly popular with children.
From May 14 to August 17, the Museum will present “Unseen Treasures: Imperial Russia and the New World.” The exhibit contains over 350 objects and artifacts from the Russian State Historical Museum and the State Archive of the Russian Federation in Moscow.
These artifacts include the personal belongings of emperors. Patrons will pay $8 to see this exhibit: there are reduced fees for seniors, students, and History Museum members.
This addition to our landscape has come at a cost however.
In compliance with the Forest Park Master Plan, the entrance to the park by the History Museum is becoming the major point of entry.
A number of trees have been removed from the park land between Lindell and the Forest Park Parkway along DeBaliviere. Experts told the Parks Department that the trees had only a very limited life span of 3-4 years. New landscaping will take their place as well as a new median on DeBaliviere and granite curbs. Visitors to the park and museum are expected to arrive by foot from MetroLink or on bicycles.
To allow a traffic light sequence that would allow this nonvehicular traffic enough time to navigate the intersection in front of the museum, there is no longer a left turn allowed from DeBaliviere onto Lindell, irritating a number of motorists.
This feature also was part of the Master Plan.
However, the Parks Dept. has said that the light can be changed when MetroLink construction makes utilization of the Parkway by neighborhood motorists more tenuous.
Original photograph caption
Baroque sleigh used by CatherineII, 18 thcentury. Wood, velvet, metal, leather.
Originally published in The Times of Skinker-DeBaliviere, April–May 2000.
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