Museum destinations by categories
These are among the known Missouri museums and sites of interest, most of which have been visited by Missouri Museum Journey, and are conveniently separated by topic. These are only a few of Missouri’s museusm and sites. More will be visited and added later to the list.
AGRICULTURE
- Early Cattle Drives, Katy Depot Museum, Sedalia
- George Washington Carver Museum, Diamond
- Agriculture Museum, Warrensburg.
AMUSEMENTS
* State Fair Museum, Sedalia
* Indoor carousel, Patee House, St. Joseph
ANIMALS
*American Saddlehouse Museum, Mexico
*Mule Barn, Warrensburg
*Where Pigs Fly, Linn
* Old Drum, Warrensburg
*Jim the Wonder Dog, Marshall
*Seaman (a.k.a. Scannon, Lewis & Clark Dog), several sites, St. Charles
AUTHORS
*Harold Bell Wright, (Shepherd of the Hills et al), Branson, Point Lookout
*Mark Twain, Hannibal, Paris, Florida
AUTO MUSEUMS, GENERAL
*Mitchell Motorcar Museum, Boonville
*Auto and Farm Museum, Branson
*Auto World, Fulton
*Patee House, St. Joseph
*Celebrity Cars, Branson
AUTOS, SPECIFIC
*Beverly Hillbillies truck, Ralph Foster Museum, Point Lookout
*J.C. Penney Cadillac, Hamilton
*Queen’s car, World’s Largest Toy Museum, Branson
*Lucille Ball car, inside Redmon’s Travel Center, Phillipsburg
*Bobby Darin futuristic car, National Museum of Transportation, Kirkwood
*Jackie Kennedy limo for JFK funeral, Celebrity Cars, Branson
*Replica Batmobile, Celebrity Cars, Branson
AVIATION
* Continental Flight 11 memorial, Putnam County Courthouse lawn, Unionville
* Pheasant Airplane, Wiggins Family Museums, Memphis
* TWA Museum, Kansas City
* Nicholas-Beazley Air Museum, Marshall
BRIDGES, OTHER
* Georgia Bridge, Webb City
* MKT Missouri River Bridge, Boonville
BRIDGES, COVERED
* Locust Creek, Laclede
* Union, Paris
* Sandy Creek, Hillsboro
*Bufordville, Bufordville
BUSINESS
*Economy Museum, St. Louis
*J.C. Penney Museum, Hamilton
*Banks once printed own money, Pate House, St. Joseph
CAPITOLS/SEAT OF GOVERNMENT
*Current State Capitol, Jefferson City
*First State Capitol, St. Charles
*Red House, Territorial Seat of Government, Cape Girardeau
CARRIAGES
*Patee House, St. Joseph
*Washington History Museum, Washington
*Agriculture Building, Warrensburg
* Carver Museum, Diamond
*Conestoga, Shoal’s Creek, Kansas City
*State History Museum, Capitol, Jefferson City
*Joplin History Museum, Joplin
CHILDREN’S MUSEUMS
* Magic House, Kirkwood
* Play Street, St. Charles
COMMUNICATIONS
*Pony Express Museum, St. Joseph
*Mid-Missouri Museum of Independent Telephone Pioneers, Blackwater
*Telephone Pioneers Museum, Jefferson Barracks, Lemay
COURTHOUSE STORIES
*Arrow Rock Log Courthouse
*Log Courthouse, Memphis
*Johnson County Courthouse (murder), Warrensburg
*Courtroom, Patee House,
St. Joseph
CREATORS
*Walt Disney Museum, Marceline
*Rose Oneill (Kewpie Dolls), Walnut Shade, and Foster Museum, Point Lookout
CRIMINALS
*Bonnie & Clyde, Joplin (site), Kansas City, (site) Jefferson City (State Patrol Museum)
*James Earl Ray, Former State Penitentiary, Jefferson City
*Jesse James death home, near Pate House St. Joseph
CULTURAL, AFRICAN AMERICAN
*Arrow Rock Black history Museum, Arrow Rock
*Black Archives, St. Joseph Museums, St. Joseph
*Negro League Baseball Museum, Kansas City
*Sappington African American Cemetery, Arrow Rock
CULTURAL, INTERNATIONAL
*Bethel Corporate German History, Bethel
*Holocaust Museum, Creve Couer
*Monument to a town, Ilasco
*Irish touch, McCorkle Park, Cameron
CULTURAL, NATIVE AMERICAN
*Illiwek village, St. Francisville
*Native Americans, St. Joseph Museums
DISASTERS, MANMADE
*Titanic Museum, Branson
*Hyatt Hotel Disaster Memorial, Kansas City
DISASTER, NATURAL
* Tornado, Joplin City Hall, park
*Kirksville tornado, info on Courthouse lawn
*Hardin Cemetery, (flood) Hardin
DOLLS
*World’s Largest Toy Museum, Branson
*Foster Museum, Point Lookout
* Toy and Miniature Museum, Kansas City
*Remember When Toy Museum, Canton
*Retrograde, Warrensburg
*St. Joseph Museums, St. Joseph
EDUCATION
*Green Valley School, Lancaster
*Elm School, Warrensburg
*Country School, Graceland, Mexico
*Newcomer School, Shelter Gardens, Columbia
ENTERTAINERS
* Ginger Rogers, Independence (Museum now closed)
*Emmett Kelly, Houston
EUROPE & FULTON
*National Churchill Museum
*Berlin Wall Section
*Aldermanbury Chapel
FIREFIGHTING
*Hermann Fire Department Museum, Hermann
*Private Fire Collection Museum, Hermann
*Fire Fighters Association of Missouri Memorial, Kingdom City
* Jefferson Ciy Fire Museum, Jefferson City
FORTS
*Fort Wood, Troy
*Fort Morgan, (info site), Laclede
FRONTIER SPIRIT
*Calamity Jane, Princeton
*Buffalo Bill, Pony Express Museum, St. Joseph
*Daniel Boone, Definance
FUNERARY
*Funeral Museum, Heaton-Bowman-Smith-Sidenfaden Chapel, St. Joseph (Active funeral home. Call ahead.)
*Horse drawn hearse, Putnam County Historical Society, Unionville
*Horse drawn hearse, National Museum of Transportation, Kirkwood
*Horse drawn hearse, Patee House, St. Joseph
GAS STATIONS
* Van Houten MFA station, Clarence
*Brown Station, Center
*Garden of Eden, Warrensburg
* Shell Station, Macon
*Indoor station, Lebanon (Rt 66 Museum)
*Old station, Princeton
*Sinclair Station, Memphis
*Bethel gas station, Bethel
*Station now pizza place, Lee’s Summit
*Skelly Station, Hannibal
*Montgomery City
HISTORIC HOMES
*Downing House, Memphis
*Graceland Museum, Mexico
HISTORIC COMMERCIAL BUILDINGS
*Gunsmith shop, Arrow Rock
*Lohman Building, Jefferson City
LAW AND ORDER
*Calaboose, Arrow Rock
*Boonville Jail, former hanging barn
*Bushwhacker Jail, Nevada
*Law Enforcement Memorial, Jefferson City
*State Patrol Museum, Jefferson City
*Missouri Penitentiary prison tours, Jefferson City
*Misssouri Penitentiary Museum, Jefferson City
*Two jail cubes, Novinger
LEISURE
*BB gun museum (Largest Toy Museum), Branson
*Checkers Museum (Largest Toy Museum), Branson
*Chess Museum, St. Louis
*Horseshoe Pitching Hall of Fame, Wentzville
LEWIS AND CLARK
*Boathouse Museum, St. Charles
* Info board, Rocheport
*Statues, Frontier Park, St. Charles
* River Heritage Museum, Cape Girardeau
*Corps of Discovery statue, Jefferson City
*Four Corps of Discovery buried in Missouri
* Map, St. Joseph overlook
LOCAL HISTORY, REGIONAL
*History of Boone Lick, Arrow Rock
*Ozarks History, Ralph Foster Museum, Point Lookout
LOCAL HISTORY, SMALL TOWNS
*Black Diamond, Bevier
* New Madrid, New Madrid
*Coal Mining Museum, Novinger
* Ralph Foster Museum, Point Lookout
*Schuyler County Museum, Lancaster
*Downing House, Memphis
LOCAL HISTORY, MEDIUM SIZED CITIES
*River Heritage Museum, Cape Girardeau
*Johnson County Historical Museum, Warrensburg
*Bushwhacker Museum, Nevada
*Washington Historical Museum, Washington
*Waterworks Museum, Washington
LOCAL HISTORY, LARGER CITIES
*Joplin History Museum, Joplin
*Missouri Museum, St. Louis
*Patee House, St. Joseph
LOG STRUCTURES
*Log Cabin framed building, Arrow Rock
*Arrow Rock Courthouse
*A.T. Still, home, Kirksville
*Schuyler County Historical Society, Lancaster
*Scotland County old Courthouse, Memphis
*St. Charles log cabin
*Farm Bureau, 2-story, Jefferson City
*Log village, Novinger
MANUFACTURING
*Corn Cob pipe manufacturer, Washington
*Firebrick Museum, Mexico
*Shoe Manufacturing in St. Louis, Jefferson City
MEDIA
*Print Museum, Arrow Rock
*Walter Cronkite Memorial, St. Joseph
*Stars and Stripes Museum, New Bloomfield
*Walter Williams, Boonville
MEDICAL
*Glore Psychiatric, St. Joseph
*Missouri Veterinary Museum, Jefferson City
*A.T. Still Museum, Kirksville
*John Sappington Museum, Arrow Rock
MILITARY, VARIETY
*Walkway, Jefferson City
*Missouri Military Museum, Jefferson City
MILITARY, MO GENERALS
*Confederate Gen. Jospeh O. Shelby, Waverly
* Iron General John Pershing, Laclede
* U.S. Grant home, Grantville
MINING
*Outside memorial, Ardmore
* Black Diamond Museum, Bevier
*Mining Museum, Joplin
*Coal Mining Museum, Novinger
Kneeling miner statue, Webb City
MUSIC/MUSICIANS
* American Jazz Music Pioneers, Kansas City
*Chuck Berry Statue, St. Louis
*Jazz walk of Fame, Kansas City
*John William “Blind” Boone, Warrensburg, Columbia
*Scott Joplin, St. Louis, Sedalia
*State Fair theme song, Sedalia
POP CULTURE
*Retrograde, Warrensburg
*Soda Museum, St. Charles
*Celebrity cars, Branson
*World’s Largest Toy Museum, Branson
PRESIDENTIAL
*Truman home, Lamar
*Truman Presidential Library, Independence
*President for a day (statue) Plattesburg
*U.S. Grant, Grantville
* Kennedy Campaign stop, Joplin (historical Museum).
RAILROAD
*Katy Depot, Sedalia
*National Museum of Transportation, Kirkwood
*Trolley, Webb City
*Iron Spike Miniature Railroad, Washington
*Depot Inn, LaPlata
RELIGION
*Shrine of St. Patrick, St. Patrick village
*Flintlock Church, Lee’s Summit (Missouri Town 1855)
* Large praying hands, Webb City
ROUTE 66
*Rest Stops, Conway
* Route 66 Museum, Lebanon
SCULPTURES
*Beetle Bailey, University of Missouri Campus, Columbia
SINKABLE/UNSINKABLE
*Titanic Museum, Branson
*Steamboat Arabia, Kansas City
*Molly Brown home, Hannibal
*May Birkhead grave, Louisiana
SPORTS PEOPLE
*Cal Hubbard grave, courthouse marker, Milan
*Mickey Mantle, Joplin History Museum
STATE BORDER MARKERS
*Three-state, Joplin
SUPERLATIVES
*Big pecan, Brunswick
*Big Soda Cup, Cape Girardeau
*Big Goose, Sumner
*Smallest County seat, Monticello
THEATERS
*Lyceum theater, Arrow Rock
*Thespian Theatre, Boonville
TOYS
*Remember When Toy Museum, Canton
*Miniature and Toy Museum, Kansas City
*World’s Largest Toy Museum. Branson
*Toys in the Attic, too, Collins
TRACTORS
*Gaetz Family Museum, Point Lookout
*Auto and Farm Museum, Branson
*American Tractor Museum, Perryville
Wiggins Family Museums, Memphis
TRANSPORTATION
*American Truck Historical Society, Kansas City
*River, Rails, and Trails, Boonville
*National Museum of Transportation, Kirkwood
WALKS/WALKS OF FAME
*St. Louis Walk of Fame
*Cape Girardeau, River Walk
*American Jazz Museum Walk, Kansas City
*River-Levee walk, Canton
WAR SPECIFIC
*Vietnam Memorial, Shelter Gardens, Columbia
*First in Country Vietnam Memorial, Wentzville
*National World War I Museum, Kansas City
