There are even opportunities for visitors to create their own art while inside. Children and adults who venture into that re-imagined ware house experience art on all levels – not simply as viewers, as an audience – but participants in the artistic process – climbing, crawling, sliding and figuring out how to physically negotiate works of art. Louisan Bob Cassilly is in fact accomplishing this very thing with the visual arts in his City Museum, fifteen blocks west of the river in downtown St. You may think this a pie-in-the-sky concept with no chance of succeeding but St. They should also recognize its weaknesses and work to improve them. They would realize the considerable accomplishments that people like themselves have achieved along the Mississippi, on this stretch of prairie, and be inspired to create and construct the St. It should be so irresistibly interactive that children and adults alike would be drawn into the incredible mystery and drama that history, when it’s well told and illustrated, evokes. Louis as the vortex of an immense area of natural resources and a connecting point to other regions, cultures and markets. Louis as a singular urban entity, nor even a single city within the state of Missouri, but on St.
Louis should possess the depth and scholarly weight of the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago because its focus would not be on St.
This is especially true of children who are a community’s future.Īncient peoples, who held their bards and other collectors of history in high esteem, realized this but modern societies, in the face of enormous technological advances, are losing their sense of the past and their reverence for the sources of culture at an alarming rate. And this is tragic because to the extent that a people know and appreciate their history they become devoted to shaping its future. Louis’s place in the broad history of the United States and North America is critical, deep and little celebrated.
Louis where it began, on the bluffs of the Mississippi River. I am writing today to advocate the creation of a Museum of the History of the City of St.
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