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Visitors Guide to
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The Missouri Historical Society
operates the Missouri History Museum. The Historical Society, which was
founded in 1866, has been collecting written records, photographs and
artifacts representing the people who live and work in St. Louis and
Missouri. The Society was housed at a number of locations until 1913, when
it moved to the Jefferson Memorial Building in Forest Park. The Jefferson
Memorial Building is on the site of the main entrance to the 1904 Louisiana
Purchase Exposition (St. Louis World's Fair) and was built with proceeds from
the fair. In 2000 a significant building addition, the Emerson Center, was
completed. The Emerson Center features a ground-to-roof southern glass façade
and provides substantially more exhibition space, an auditorium, classrooms,
a restaurant, and a gift shop. The Missouri History
Museum is dedicated to documenting and interpreting the history of the St.
Louis area. The museum permanent collection includes both national
artifacts, as well as Missouri and St. Louis related materials. The original
Louisiana Purchase transfer document that formally passed the Louisiana
Territory from Spain to France on March 9, 1804 can be seen. The French then
signed over the territory to the U. S. the next day. Among the signers was
Meriwether Lewis, co-leader of the Lewis & Clark expedition that
explored the new American territory from 1804-1806. Artifacts from the Lewis
and Clark Expedition are in the permanent collection, as St. Louis was the
starting point for the expedition. The museum also displays personal
artifacts from explorer William Clark including furnishings and artifacts
from his St. Louis office. The Museum also displays a number of local
colonial and Native American artifacts. The Missouri Historical Society hosts both traveling and special exhibits. Use the link to the Historical Society's website below to find out what is currently showing at the Museum. Visiting the
Missouri Historical History
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