City Museum a must see in St Louis

Things to Do In the City Museum

To those who haven’t visited the City Museum of St. Louise is losing something for sure. In 1995 Bob Cassilly bought the 600,000 square foot international shoe factory to turn it into a collection of old and young unique items. Basically he wanted to make a fun house for everyone. Today the popularity of this museum has grown beyond the boundaries of the city municipality. Now they accept every kind of weird items from everywhere around the world. This is quite an amusing place to hangout with family and friends.
The most unique thing about the building is that there is no dead end. As the authorities hate it because every day they have to add up new items. So space for new addition has been left everywhere. Here’s a small list of some of the weirdest yet unique collection of the museum which you must not leave behind if you visit there.

The two planes

Story goes about them that they belonged to Wayne Newton. After the great flood of 1993 the museum purchased them. As a part of the museum they are now exhibited in the MonstroCity. Visitors have to crawl through the weird tubes to see the exterior parts of the planes.
The largest pencil of the world The 76 plus ft 21500 pound pencils was originally donated to Ashrita Furman. The pencil contains 4000 pound of graphite equivalent to 1900,000 regular pencils. It has a 250 pound eraser with it. If you can lift it, you can write with it. It took a crane to lift the pencil and place it inside the museum.

The 10 story slide

The workers used chutes in place of freight elevators to send shoes from one floor to the other. Bob Cassilly and his company turned the chutes into funny sliders for visitors. People can see it in the museum cave.

The Big Eli

The big Ferris wheel is dated back from 1940. The 30 feet wheel was found in a barn. The wheel has flatbed so it’s actually safe to place it in the roof. The wheel is fully restored before placing it.

The school bus

To make the museum more attractive the artisans sometimes cut out the floors or heavy objects in the building floor or side walls or roof. Sometimes they do this without permit. Just like the case of a school bus. It was donated by Roxana School District. To make it scarier the authorities fixed hydraulics under the bus to make it bounce. But it is totally safe.