Hidden Museums

A traveling museum in St. Louis highlights the achievements of black inventors. From left, across: Granville T. Woods, Lonnie Johnson, Sarah Boone, George Washington Carver, Bessie Blount, Elijah McCoy, Madam CJ Walker, Marjorie Joyner, Philip Emeagwali.

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St. Louis-based traveling museum highlights the achievements of often unsung black inventors

Kelly Moffitt

In 1996, Loretta Ford founded the Museum of Black Inventors with the idea of highlighting the achievements of often unsung African Americans who…

Local retired telephone employees banded together to create the Jefferson Barracks Telephone Museum, which opened earlier this year. Here's one of the exhibits inside.

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Retired Southwestern Bell workers unite to preserve telephone history in new St. Louis museum

Kelly Moffitt

Sometimes it is best to learn your history from someone close to the history itself. That’s certainly the case with the Jefferson Barracks Telephone…

Joann Martin and Fay Zerbolio are two St. Louis-based miniaturists who run the Miniature Museum of Greater St. Louis in Bevo Mill.

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Teeny tiny museum by Bevo Mill houses St. Louis miniaturists’ creations down to 1/44 inches in scale

Kelly Moffitt

When it comes to the world of St. Louis’ amateur miniaturists, you work with the supplies at hand.“I once painted with the whiskers of a cat,” said Joann…

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Pups need museums too: St. Louis’ Museum of the Dog pairs fine art with our four-legged friends

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Fine art. Puppies. Never the twain shall meet, right? Wrong, says the American Kennel Club’s Museum of the Dog, a St. Louis County museum which allows…

Don Marsh spoke with Tom Gasko, the proprietor of the cacuum cleaner museum and factory outlet in St. James, Missouri in response to a Curious Louis question Wednesday.

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St. Louis’ Hidden Museums: Vacuum cleaner museum in St. James has a local backstory

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Those of you who have grown up in St. Louis might remember the name and personality of Stan Kann, the 22-year resident organist at the Fox Theatre in St.…

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St. Louis area holds nation’s only horseshoe pitching museum — yes, horseshoe pitching

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Joe Faron, the vice president of the National Horseshoe Pitchers Foundation, says the museum he helped create is one of the best kept secrets in the…

The Karpeles Manuscript Library Museum in St. Louis opened in August 2015.

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Little-known St. Louis museum holds part of world’s largest private original manuscript collection

Kelly Moffitt

The first draft of the Bill of Rights. The paper Einstein’s E=Mc2 was written on. Noah Webster’s first dictionary. These are three influential documents…