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CAM brings inspiration to all that visit.

The Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis acts to enhance lives and inspire creativity, curiosity, and learning through experiences with modern art. Our goal is to offer meaningful engagement with the most innovative and relative art being created today. Free to all, we’re a welcome space.

We display work being made today for today’s audiences. Art that showcases the world around us and helps unites us to the most salient topics of our time. Not having a permanent collection lets us be responsive, nimble, and adaptive – both to our local community and the global art world.

CAM is a beginning place for artists, several go on to critical acclaim. It is also a venue for St. Louis natives to see figures of international recognition. A place for discovery, CAM is a meeting place to enjoy and see the modern visual culture.

Impact and Mission

Encouraged by the work on view, we engage millions of people outside and inside the museum’s walls through a vast host of activities for folks of all ages, such as stroller tours, artist talks, hands-on ArtReach workshops in neighborhoods and schools, a monthly neighborhood art crawl, and city-wide Open Studios STL. We have over 75 public programs per year and most of them are free. We keep a serious relationship with St. Louis public schools.

CAM cultivates the creative thinking of our city’s young people with in-depth, free art education. In New Art in the Neighborhood, our famous studio art program for teens, and LEAP Middle School Initiative, students partner with artists to become engrossed in contemporary art practices and issues. In Teen Museum Studies, an inventive career-based training program, members experience the inner workings of the museum as they coordinate an exhibition from beginning to end. These programs have a long-term impact, forming better citizens, better artists, better students and art spectators for the future.

You can find the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum in St. Louis.

The Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, part of the Washington University in St. Louis, is dedicated to developing and preserving its art collection and staying its legacy of collecting crucial art of the time; offering excellence in art historical education, scholarship, and exhibition; motivating social and intellectual inquiry into the connections between contemporary life and art; and stimulating audiences in the local community, on campus, across the nation, and around the globe.

History and Collection

The Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum goes back to the 19^th century.  Its collection was molded in huge part by acquiring major works by artists of the time, a legacy that lasts today. Now one of the finest university collections in the US, this museum has strong holdings of 19th-, 20th-, and 21st-century American and European prints, paintings, sculptures, photographs, and installations.

Architecture

First located in a neo-Renaissance building in downtown St. Louis, in 1906 the Museum collection was transported to the Palace of Fine Arts in Forest Park, now the Saint Louis Art Museum. It currently remained there until the opening of Steinberg Hall in 1960, which linked Washington University’s visual arts departments with the museum, then named the Washington University Gallery of Art.

In 2004, the museum formally became the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum. The present building opened on October 25, 2006. Both Steinberg Hall and the current museum were created by Pritzker Prize-winning architect Fumihiko Maki.

In 2017, Washington University began one of the most vital capital projects in the recent history of the Danforth Campus: the transformation of the east end. The comprehensive plan includes two changes to the Sam Fox School—the construction of Anabeth and John Weil Hall and the expansion of the Kemper Art Museum—both of which are being designed by architecture firm Kieran Timberlake.

National Blues Museum, St. Louis

The National Blues Museum has high impact technology-driven blues experiences, a theater, artifact driven exhibits, and public programming. It studies the history of the blues and praises its significance as the root of other American modern music types.

Even though it’s raining there’s still plenty of enjoyment to be found.

Mark Twain Cave and Cameron Cave, Hannibal

The Mark Twain Cave Complex has both the Cameron Cave and Mark Twain Cave. Mark Twain Cave is the one the author depicted in his books. It is a registered National Natural Landmark and was 1^st shown to the public in 1886. The one-hour tour is 60 minutes and takes you through the labyrinth style passages.

Cameron Cave delivers a different sort of underground experience. A guided, 90-minute tour takes you through the cave with lantern light, letting you see the cave as it looked when it was found in 1925. No changes have been made to the cave other than those needed to fulfill the basic comfort and safety regulations for show caves.

Adrenaline Zone, St. Charles

Adrenaline Zone in St. Charles has three awesome game options. Demolition Ball is a fun game that unites polo, hockey, football, and basketball. And it’s played in bumper cars. You have to be at least 12 years old to play. Adrenaline Zone’s laser tag arena is one of the biggest multi-level arenas in Missouri.

The third choice at Adrenaline Zone is Heist, a hi-tech, timed laser maze. Besides all of this, the facility has pool tables, video games, and foosball tables, not to mention catering and a full bar.

Hallmark Visitors Center, Kansas City

Hallmark was established in 1910 by Mr. J.C. Hall and its headquarters have been in Kansas City for over 100 years. Stop by and find out all about its history and inception. They have the original artwork, several interactive displays, Keepsake Ornament collections, Hallmark television commercials, and special exhibits. Also, they offer group activities.

Rainy days can dampen your plans but there’s plenty to do despite the wet weather.

Spring in Missouri delivers some impulsive weather which usually includes rain. This means you make plans to visit the park, the zoo, or ride bikes are shot, and you need some other activities. Below are some amazing things to do for when Mother Nature is not obliging with your outdoor plans.

Activity and Recreation Center, Columbia

The A.R.C. in Columbia is a 73,000-square-foot indoor recreation facility. There is a gymnasium, an indoor leisure pool, a game room, an indoor track, and cardio/strength-training zones. Features of the pool include interactive water play features, a lazy river, a zero-depth entry, a triple-loop water slide, a vortex, three-lap lanes, and a heated hydrotherapy pool. You can buy annual, weekly, or daily passes.

Auto World Museum, Fulton

In this museum, cars are shown in era-specific settings to make the atmosphere of the year the vehicle was made using big prints of building facades and historical scenes. The oldest car in the museum’s collection is a 1903 Humbrette, and the latest is a 1997 UMC solar race car. The displays rotate, with the museum displaying close to 80 vehicles at a time from the bigger collection. Visitors get audio-visual information about the automobiles and their place in history with interactive kiosks. An ideal activity for car lovers.

Missouri State Capitol Building, Jefferson City

Finished in 1918, the capitol covers three acres in downtown Jefferson City. Rising 238 feet over the ground level, the dome is capped by a bronze statue of Ceres, the Roman goddess of vegetation. The structure is famous for its architectural features like its bronze doors, columns, and grand stairway. Besides its part in government, the building also houses the historic exhibits of the Missouri State Museum.

They offer free guided tours. Also, self-guided maps are available for sightseeing on your own.