The Magic House St. Louis Children's Museum

The Magic House offers special morning hours for families with young children Tuesday through Friday during the school year. Select exhibits open at 10:30 a.m. before the entire museum opens at noon. Preschool Hours feature exhibits that are geared toward children ages 2-8, but anyone is welcome to visit.

The Magic House is celebrating the kick off to the Year of the Pig with a festival of fun! Families can enjoy a Lion Dance performance (10 a.m., 11 a.m. and 1 p.m.), and Chinese face painting as well as celebrate the opening of The Magic House's newest World Traveler Gallery exhibit Children's China. 

Fishing around for something fun to do? Swim on over to The Magic House for the Splash and Bubbles Breakfast! Guests will have a whale of a time as they nibble on a delicious breakfast, make fish faces at the photo booth, participate in some very fishy art activities, explore the Mu"sea" um and enjoy private playtime in the newest exhibit Splash and Bubbles: Dive In, Lend a Fin! Reservations are required.

Celebrate one of the final weekends of the traveling exhibit Kenya's Kids at The Magic House with the young dancers from Jahfi Studio.

Children can help families with food insecurity in our local communities and get into The Magic House for free during the annual Kids Can Help food drive.

It's the Not-So-Haunted House that is oh-so-fun! Kids of all ages are invited to dress in their most "boo-tiful" Halloween costumes and have a ghoulishly good time trick-or-treating at The Magic House and getting autographs from their favorite storybook characters.

Big trucks will be a big deal at The Magic House on Big Truck Day. Visitors can register to attend a Big Truck Day celebration where they can get up close and personal with a cement mixer, crane, fire truck and more.