Hit the road without ever leaving the building. This summer, celebrate the 100th anniversary of Route 66 with St. Louis Public Library Quest: Route 66—an all-ages search and discover adventure from June 1 – August 15 at Central Library. Pick up your official Quest brochure at any circulation desk, then start exploring. As you move through the Library, you’ll […]

Cinema St. Louis presents the 19th Annual QFest St. Louis Film Festival, an annual celebration of LGBTQ+ film and queer culture, which runs from June 12 to June 21! This year, the theme is OUT, LOUD, a reflection of visibility, resilience, and joy at a moment when living openly can still feel like an act […]

The St. Louis SERA Rodeo is making its return to Chaifetz Arena on June 20!

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 Tower Grove Farmers’ Market is open Saturdays from 8 a.m.–12:30 p.m. (April through November 1) and Tuesdays from 4 p.m. to sunset (May through September). The market has experienced tremendous growth since beginning in 2006 and has become a popular gathering place for thousands of St. Louisans every week during the season.

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, […]

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 […]

Join one of the Horticulturists for a two-hour trolley tour exploring Missouri’s first ArbNet Level III Accredited Arboretum. This tour will focus on some of the most interesting plant selections that make up Bellefontaine’s collection of about 10,000 trees and shrubs, represented by nearly 600 distinct species, selections, and varieties. Come learn more about what […]

Have you ever wondered how a boat made of steel can float or if the materials that wheels are made of affect the distance a car travels? If so, come design a foil boat and a balloon car using the engineering design process. Learn about how that same process was used to design Weldon’s disposal […]

The Magic House presents A 90s Summer! A 90s Summer is a special summer-long experience that adds a fresh layer of fun to everything families already love about the Museum! Inspired by the carefree summers of the 1990s, this celebration focuses on unplugged, hands-on play, encouraging kids to move, create, explore, and imagine while parents […]

The Saint Louis Artists’ Guild presents True North by CB Adams beginning Friday, June 12th! True North begins with a return. For more than fifteen years, CB Adamas has walked North St. Louis, following light, form, and what remains as the landscape shifts. Many of these places now exist only in these prints. CB Adamas’ […]

The St. Louis Artists’ Guild presents Everyday Histories by Aggie Toppins beginning Friday, June 12th! Aggie Toppins creates collage using materials found in archives, midcentury magazines, and daily life to index everyday experience and access the historical imagination. Toppins asks questions about how the past remains in the present, with a particular interest in gendered […]

The St. Louis Artists’ Guild presents Multiplicity: The Power of the Print beginning Friday, June 12th! Multiplicity: The Power of the Print is an exhibition that aims to highlight current trends in contemporary American printmaking and shine a spotlight on a cross-section of artists working in a variety of traditional, alternative, and experimental print processes. […]

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 […]