The City Museum Review: The City Museum in St.
Louis is not a museum, unless of course it's a museum of fun (but that already exists - it's called the Strong Museum in New York).
I'm not even sure why they called it a museum to start out with.
It's everything a museum is not.
I was once told to call it the museum of touch, but that's not right and that already exists.
This is a place to climb, crawl, jump, shimmy, slide, roll, crouch, bend, play, step, walk, and squeeze.
It's like Disney without padding.
Ever see a conveyor belt made with rollers? The kind that they use to push boxes at the post office or in a grocery store? Can you imagine taking one of those and turning it into a two story slide? How about another one about 5 feet tall for little kids? But that's just the tame part, how about a cork screw slide that's 10 stories tall? How about climbing 10 stories in the air on rebar ladders, chicken wire and welded steel to a plane suspended above the ground? And then, how about coming back down to a giant ball pit? And the pizza - it's phenomenal.
I'm not sure how an indoor amusement park could have such good pizza - but it did.
Here's the bad part.
If you've got kids who are big enough to play, but not big enough to let loose this place will be a nightmare.
When you walk inside there's a tree tunnel you can climb up into the ceiling.
But be prepared to look around and wonder where does the tunnel possibly come out.
Because I have no idea.
So be prepared to start climbing with your kids - or you'll never find them amongst all the fun stuff.