St. Louis is a cultural hub in Missouri and is located on the Mighty Mississippi River. With free museums, the culture is ...

Free museum, zoo and parks The Saint Louis Zoo, Saint Louis Art Museum, Saint Louis Science Center, Missouri History Museum, St. Louis Kaplan Feldman Holocaust Museum, and more are all free to visit.

The Saint Louis Zoo is nominated for multiple USA Today Readers' Choice Awards and the City Museum, Anheuser-Busch Brewery, and Laumeier Sculpture Park are all up for awards of their own for 2025.

History and Overview Unofficially, the Saint Louis Zoo got its start with the 1904 World’s Fair Flight Cage. You can still visit the structure today; it’s now home to the Cypress Swamp, where you can ...

Picture your ideal day at the Saint Louis Zoo. Your favorite animal to visit might be Kali the polar bear or the penguins and puffins. No matter what, though, you’re probably one in a gaggle of humans ...

The Saint Louis Zoo is home to more than 14,000 animals, but at more than 84 years old, two stick out in particular. Othello and Ray, both Aldabra tortoises, came to the U.S. in 1938, and may be ...

Lily, a six-year-old reticulated giraffe at the St. Louis Zoo, searches for hay from a neighbor's enclosure on World Giraffe Day on Thursday, June 21, 2018.

JEFFERSON CITY • A Missouri senator is threatening to derail a bid to boost taxes for the St. Louis Zoo because of the city’s decision to ban employers and landlords from discriminating ...

The Saint Louis Zoo's $230 million WildCare Park satellite safari park, expected to open to visitors in 2027, will generate a massive regional economic impact in the next decade, officials said.

The name for the Saint Louis Zoo's new campus in North County, which is projected to open in 2026, hits on three aspects Zoo officials say the new campus will illustrate: wildlife, conservation ...

Yet now the zoo has put on the St. Louis County November 6 ballot Proposition Z, a one-eighth percent sales tax that would be in addition to its existing property tax.