Magic House, St Louis Children's Museum - Saint Louis Childrens Museum

  • Address: 516 S. Kirkwood Rd. St. Louis, MO 63122
  • Phone: 3148228900
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  • Website:www.magichouse.org
Average Rating
4.0
 38+ reviews
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4.0
 31+ reviews
Yelp
4.5
 7+ reviews
Magic House, St Louis Children's Museum
516 S. Kirkwood Rd. St. Louis
MO 63122

Magic House, St Louis Children's Museum Details

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  • The Magic House, St. Louis Children's Museum, is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to providing children with hands-on learning experiences in a creative and stimulating environment. Located in a three-story Victorian home in suburban St. Louis, the museum was originally built as a private ... more on MuseumStuff.com
  • The Magic House, St. Louis Children's Museum is a not-for-profit organization that provides children with hands-on learning experiences designed to be fun, engaging and memorable in a creative and stimulating environment.   The Magic House is a special place where families can explore, play... more on TripAdvisor
  • Jody Newman and Barbie Freund founded this non-profit organization in 1975 with the goal of creating an interactive museum that attracts, educates, and entertains both children and adults. First Impressions is one of the world's largest movable sculptures, standing over eight feet tall. Lean agai... more on Yahoo! Travel
  • The Magic House, also known as the St. Louis Children's Museum, features more than one hundred hands-on exhibits for youngsters.In Children's Village, kids can be a newscaster, shop in a grocery store, or catch a "fish." The electrostatic generator brings tons of laughs and a fly-away hairdo afte... more on GoCityKids.com
  • The Magic House… • is a 25,000-square-foot interactive museum with room for up to 500 guests of all ages. • has a spacious Events Gallery that will accommodate 150 guests for a sit down dinner or 250 guests for a reception. • has a beautiful open-air Victorian Pavilion and Sculpture Garde... more on Eventective.com

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5.0
Kids love it!!

(February 07, 2001 00:00)

The Magic House is a wonderful place to take your children if your from St. Louis or not. There is not a better place for Kids to use their imagination and get hands-on education. It may be crowded at times but that is becuase it is so fun. The children's village is really popular, it is where ch... A Yahoo! User, a user of Yahoo! Travel. Read full review on Yahoo! Travel

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5.0
A blast for small children

I took my 3 year old son to the Magic House on a recent visit to St. Louis. He LOVED it. He spent the rest of the weekend asking to go back. We were there on a Friday afternoon and it was not crowded at all. I did speak to a few moms who said it was unusually slow and they were pleased because th... Robin1974, a user of Tripadvisor. Read full review on TripAdvisor

4.0
Michelle F. 's review

Fun, interactive museum for kids that takes a lot of time. You can't see this whole place and really explore in just an hour or two. They have a bridge ... a user of yelp.com. Read full review on Yelp

5.0
Family Fun

(April 05, 2010 00:00)

The Magic House is magical. Everyone who enters is magically enveloped by the wonders of this beautiful house. Bring your child (or your inner child!) to play at the Magic House and you will be magically youthful, energetic and creative! It's the house every child dreams of living in and yet it's... iammisspatti, a user of Yahoo! Travel. Read full review on Yahoo! Travel

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5.0
Great Place to Take the Kids

Our visit to the Magic House was great. My kids ages 5, 7, & 9 loved it. Admission is $6.50 each and well worth it. There are so many hands on exhibits that are both fun & educational. Favorites included the art studio in the basement, the bubbles, the "shadow" ... A TripAdvisor Member, a user of Tripadvisor. Read full review on TripAdvisor

Directions

The Magic House is located one mile north of I-44 at 516 S. Kirkwood Rd. Kirkwood Rd. is the section of Lindbergh Blvd. between Big Bend Blvd. and Manchester Rd.

Hours

School year (Sep-May): noon-5:30pm Tue-Thu; noon-9pm Fri; 9:30am-5:30pm Sat; 11am-5:30pm Sun; Summer (Memorial Day-Labor Day): 9:30am-5:30pm Mon-Thu; 9:30am-9pm Fri; 9:30am-5:30pm Sat; 11am-5:30pm Sun

Miscellaneous

  • Admission: adults $6.5 children $6.5
  • Annual Attendance: 432,930
  • Collections: The museum has undergone four separate expansion projects. In 1985, The Magic House opened a 2,000-square-foot addition designed exclusively for children ages 1 to 7, A Little Bit of Magic. This area was created to refine gross motor skills, enhance a you
  • Exhibit Space: 20,000

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