The Butterfly House: A Tropical Flight in Chesterfield
In the middle of a Missouri winter — or any season — the Sophia M. Sachs Butterfly House keeps a piece of the tropics flying....
Month : October 2026
The Holiday Flower and Train Show: The Garden’s Coziest Tradition
Every St. Louis family has a Garden Glow strategy, and the smart ones route through the warmth of the Holiday Flower and Train Show. The...
Garden Glow: A Family Night in Two Million Lights
From November 14, 2026, to January 2, 2027, the Missouri Botanical Garden trades its blooms for pure light. Garden Glow, presented by Edward Jones, wraps...
Dine with Santa at the Saint Louis Zoo
Santa Claus takes reservations in St. Louis — at the zoo. The Saint Louis Zoo’s beloved Dine with Santa events return this December, pairing a...
A Family Guide to the Saint Louis Zoo: America’s Great Free Zoo
Start with the best sentence in family travel: the Saint Louis Zoo is free. In leafy Forest Park, 90 acres hold more than 16,000 animals...
Pulitzer Arts Foundation: Art in a Temple of Concrete and Light
Some museums you visit for the art; the Pulitzer Arts Foundation you visit for the silence around it. Founded by Emily Rauh Pulitzer and opened...
The McDonnell Planetarium Reopens with a Sky Full of New Shows
St. Louis’s most futuristic roofline is shining brighter. The James S. McDonnell Planetarium — the 1963 hyperboloid landmark in Forest Park — celebrated a grand...
National Blues Museum: The Sound America Gave the World
St. Louis gave the blues its most famous title — W.C. Handy’s 1914 ‘St. Louis Blues’ — and in 2016 the city finally gave the...
Soldiers Memorial Military Museum: A Downtown Shrine to Service
Downtown St. Louis keeps its promises in stone. Soldiers Memorial Military Museum, opened in 1938 as the city’s memorial to its World War I dead,...
Eugene Field House: The Poet of Childhood Grew Up Here
On a downtown corner where you’d least expect a storybook, the Eugene Field House has been keeping childhood safe since 1936. This brick row house,...
