Missouri River Valley Loop presents the 2026 Scavenger Hunt! Explore the charming small towns that make up the Missouri River Valley Loop, discover unique local businesses, and meet the amazing people who bring each community to life. Hunt, discover, and scan QR codes, then decipher the bonus clues that reveal a secret treasure in each […]

The big top is back! Opening Wednesday, Sept. 2, UniverSoul Circus brings its new WE ALL BELONG production to St. Louis, transforming the iconic purple and yellow tent into the city’s hottest destination for affordable family fun. Featuring an all-star cast, pulse-pounding circus thrills, breathtaking stunts and interactive entertainment, the show runs through Sept. 13 at its […]

Counterpublic presents Coyote Time starting Thursday, September 10! Located in St. Louis, Counterpublic connects art with lasting impact by bringing together bold ideas and the region’s most pressing challenges through artist_commissions, convenings, editions, and civic_initiatives. Counterpublic is a triennial exhibition reimagining the possibilities of art in public life. It connects art with lasting impact by […]

Confluence Festival: Crossroads of Concert & Community – a showcase of innovation, talent and live entertainment – represents the region’s communities coming together in welcoming NASCAR, the No. 1 form of motorsports in the U.S, to World Wide Technology Raceway. The 80,000-plus fans projected to attend the upcoming Enjoy Illinois 300 NASCAR Cup Series race […]

Honor the German heritage of Grant’s Farm, the Busch family, and the greater St. Louis area at Grant’s Farm traditional Oktoberfest celebration. Drink, dine, dance. During Oktoberfest you can: Feast on traditional German food. Raise a commemorative stein full of select German and American beers, available for purchase. Polka, waltz or just step lively to […]

Brookdale Farms presents the 2026 Fall Festival September 11 – November 8! Wander through St. Louis’ largest corn maze, pick pumpkins straight from the patch, hop on a wagon ride, and enjoy a full day of seasonal fun the whole family will love. Included with Admission: • LARGEST Corn Maze in St. Louis (Daytime only) […]

Grab Your Blankets—It’s Movie Night on the Plaza! Come relax under the stars at Westport Plaza for a cinematic evening the whole family will love. The courtyard is turning into our very own outdoor theater! Bring your lawn chairs, grab some snacks,  and settle in for a featured presentation on the big screen.

The Saint Louis Zoo presents Dinoroarus starting Friday, June 19th! The Saint Louis Zoo will transport guests millions of years back in time starting Friday, June 19, at Dinoroarus, a returning, temporary attraction for all-ages. The walk-through experience will feature 20 animatronic dinosaurs and sculptures that will move, roar, spit and chomp their way through the Zoo’s Historic Hill, in […]

Begin Again: 50 Years and Counting marks Laumeier’s 50th anniversary by celebrating five decades of artist commissions and exhibitions. Featuring hundreds of artists and rarely seen works from Laumeier’s collection, the exhibition highlights the Park’s unique position at the intersection of public art, contemporary museum practice, and the natural world. Centering on artworks that have […]

Begin Again: Wak’a Garden is the second installment in Laumeier’s Begin Again series, honoring the Park’s 50-year history of collaborating with artists and supporting new commissions and exhibitions. The organic, amphitheater-shaped sculpture, built from natural materials Laumeier’s grounds, features ceramic hive-shaped vessels and a chemical-free teaching garden. It will serve as a multisensory space for reverence, gathering, educational […]

The Bonsack Gallery Presents Tom Reed: new familiar water August 28 – September 21! The Bonsack Gallery at John Burroughs School will open new familiar water, an exhibition by Tom Reed, on Friday, August 28, with a free public reception from 5:30 to 7:30 pm. The show will remain on view through Monday, September 21. […]

The geometric and glowing art of HYBYCOZO is coming to St. Louis this spring and summer, on display for daytime visitors of the Missouri Botanical Garden and during special illuminated evening hours throughout the spring and summer. Daytime Experience – “Patterns in Nature: The Art of HYBYCOZO” April 10–September 26 | 9 a.m.–5 p.m. (last […]

The upcoming special exhibition at the Stephen and Peter Sachs Museum explores the myriad ways that different cultures represent plants and gardens through literary media, such as herbals, novels, poems, comics, and other types of stories. Highlighting Garden collections, and using books, images, objects, and botanical specimens, The Literary Garden highlights how authors and creators […]

Come Face-to-Fin with Earth’s Largest Creature through The Blue Whale Story at the Saint Louis Science Center! The life story of the largest creatures on Earth will come alive at the Saint Louis Science Center as part of a new special exhibition: The Blue Whale Story. The Blue Whale Story, produced and circulated by the […]

St. Louis Kaplan Feldman Holocaust Museum presents “Nazi’s Next Door: St. Louis Faces Nazism in the 1930s” beginning Friday, June 12th.  An original exhibition created by the St. Louis Kaplan Feldman Holocaust Museum, Nazis Next Door explores the ways in which Missourians, particularly St. Louisans, made the choice to support or resist Nazi ideas of extremism and […]

The 1904 World’s Fair was a fascinating yet complex event that continues to evoke a range of emotions. It was grand and shameful. It was full of fun and full of indignity. Now, 120 years after it opened in St. Louis, the 1904 World’s Fair exhibit at the Missouri History Museum will reintroduce audiences to […]

For more than 150 years, St. Louisans have entrusted the Missouri Historical Society with countless objects: photographs, diaries, home movies, clothing, books – items that future generations can turn in order to help make sense of the past. Some of these pieces mark defining moments in the region’s history such as Missouri’s pivotal role in […]

America’s best urban park turns 150 years young in 2026. Over the course of the last century and a half, Forest Park has hosted pivotal moments in St. Louis history: the 1904 World’s Fair, Charles Lindbergh’s 1927 speech to more than 100,000 people following his historic flight across the Atlantic, and even a surprise Janis […]

The Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis presents Ayana Evans: Nobody’s Gonna Love You the Way I Do on Friday, September 11th! Ayana Evans: Nobody’s Gonna Love You the Way I Do is the first museum survey exhibition of work by Brooklyn-based artist and performer Ayana Evans. Celebrating Evans’s dedication to live arts, the exhibition brings […]

The Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis presents Juanita McNeely: CAM x Counterpublic on Friday, September 11th! Ferguson-born artist Juanita McNeely (1936–2023) dedicated more than five decades to painting, drawing, and ceramics, developing a frank and unflinching visual language centered on the body as a site of vulnerability, desire, and resilience. Presented as part of Counterpublic […]