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 […]

The best professional and amateur cyclists in the US are coming to put on a show over Labor Day Weekend! Four full tilt races in four of STL’s coolest neighborhoods. Each day features an all day program of racing that includes amateur races and kids races that builds up to the men’s and women’s professional […]

Big Daddy’s Soulard presents the 2026 Soulard Blues & Roots Festival September 4 – 7! The Soulard Blues and Roots Festival is an annual festival celebrating the music, art, and culture of the St. Louis region, with a particular emphasis on the Historic Soulard neighborhood, where the art and culture of the Blues continues to […]

Paint Louis, the largest graffiti festival in the world, began in 1997 and continued through 2001. It was revived in 2013 and is now world-renowned. In the shadow of The Gateway Arch along the Mississipi River, over 400 writers gather every Labor Day weekend, coming from across the U.S, and most recently Canada, Mexico, Germany, […]

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 […]

Warner Bros. Discovery Global Experiences and Fever present DroneArt Show: Harry Potter, a first-of-its-kind open-air drone spectacle is coming to St. Louis September 4 & 5! Taking place at World Wide Technology Raceway, this show will blend advanced drone choreography with the unforgettable music and iconic moments from the Harry Potter film series, featuring 1,200 illuminated drones soaring […]

The annual Japanese Festival is one of the largest and longest running festivals of its kind in the United States, presenting taiko drumming, bon odori festival dancing, martial arts, candlelight walks in the Japanese Garden, and more. Doors open at 9 a.m. Last entry on Labor Day (September 7) at 4:30 p.m. Festival admission required […]

Weekends are looking up at Grant’s Farm! Summer Nights, presented by Shriners Children’s, are back and better than ever with a whole new and extended drone lights show! More time, more lights, more wow, featuring brand-new animations for kids and adults alike. Fridays, Saturdays, and select Sundays from Memorial Day through Labor Day, join friends, […]

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 […]

Jefferson Barracks Telephone Museum presents the Character Telephone Exhibit! Winnie-the-Pooh, R2-D2, Big Bird, and Kermit the Frog – these are some of the telephones you’ll see at the Jefferson Barracks Telephone Museum. Housed in a restored 1896 building, the history museum also features an extensive collection of telephones manufactured from the late 1800s through the […]

The National Museum of Transportation is proud to announce a special exhibition celebrating the 100th anniversary of historic Route 66. Titled “Roads, River, Rooms, and Reels,” the exhibit will open to the public on March 14, 2026, and will explore the stories, memories, and modes of travel that shaped America’s most iconic highway and the […]

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 […]

The St. Louis Aquarium at St. Louis Union Station presents Summer Shell-ebration June 19th – September 7th! All summer long, the aquarium is exploring the amazing world of shell-bearing animals. From armadillos to sea turtles, lobsters to limpets, learn about the wide variety of animals with this unique feature. Whether you’re celebrating a birthday, vacation, […]

The annual Japanese Festival is one of the largest and longest running festivals of its kind in the United States, presenting taiko drumming, bon odori festival dancing, martial arts, candlelight walks in the Japanese Garden, and more. Doors open at 9 a.m. Last entry on Labor Day (September 7) at 4:30 p.m. Festival admission required […]

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 […]