Museums

The National Building Arts Center plans to place the statue at its entrance. “Little Liberty” traveled from Brooklyn to the Sauget preservation museum on the back of a flatbed truck.

A new exhibit at the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum features a variety of Metro East figures, including Tina Turner, the Indigenous people who built Cahokia Mounds and surveyor Don Alonzo Spaulding.

“Confluences,” an exhibition of Faye Heavyshield’s work at the Pulitzer Arts Foundation, includes new pieces that reflect on Cahokia Mounds and the confluence of the Missouri and Mississippi rivers.

Where you learn Black history, and from whom, determines your understanding of it.

Fourth grade students from Meramec Elementary learned about the Lewis and Clark expedition during a visit to the Gateway Arch museum, where they took a tour through St. Louis history.

One hundred images in the museum’s collection of more than 13 million items are featured as 3D images. Visitors to the website can enlarge, turn upside down and spin around objects.

The St. Louis Kaplan Feldman Holocaust Museum in Creve Coeur reopens Wednesday after a $19.8 million renovation and expansion. Curators have detailed the history of the Holocaust but also want to inspire visitors to speak against hate in today’s world.

The St. Louis Kaplan Feldman Holocaust Museum, long a department of the Jewish Federation of St. Louis, will become an independent entity as it widens its mission and recruits partners from outside the Jewish faith.

Dating back to 1851, the Campbell House was the first home built on St. Louis’ first private street. A new exhibit at the museum there tells the story of the enslaved people and servants who worked at the house.

Monica Butler says gospel music history is being lost. To salvage it, she wants to convert a historic Central West End church into a gospel music hall of fame.