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Free: Missouri History Museum Presents 'How We Got Here' About Early St. Louis

View of St. Louis from the northeast in 1840

“How We Got Here,”a two-part series about the early history of St. Louis, concludes at 10:15 a.m. Monday, May 20, 2013, at the Missouri History Museum. The series will be in the AT&T Foundation Multipurpose Room.

Monday’ session will look at French explorers and the city’s early history.

The museum is located at Lindell Boulevard and DeBaliviere Avenue in Forest Park.

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Free: Missouri History Museum To Present Video About Museum Of Transportation

The Missouri History Museum will present “Memory in Motion,” a video from the Higher Education Channel at 11:30 a.m. Thurday, May 16, 2013, in the AT&T Foundation Multipurpose Room.

The video is about the Museum of Transportation in St. Louis County.

The museum is located at Lindell Boulevard and DeBaliviere Avenue in Forest Park.

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Free: Author To Speak About People, Environment Of Mississippi River

Christopher Morris, author of The Big Muddy, will discuss his book and current issues that the Mississippi River faces. He will speak at 7 p.m. Wednesday, May 15, 2013, in the Lee Auditorium of the Missouri History Museum.

The book presents a five-century tour of the interaction of people and the environment along the river.

The museum is located at Lindell Boulevard and DeBaliviere Avenue in Forest Park.

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Free: Blues Singer Marquise Johnson To Perform At History Museum

 

Marquise Knox

Marquise Knox, a St. Louis blues singer, will perform at 6 p.m. Tuesday, May 14, 2013, on the north front lawn of the Missouri History Museum.

The museum is located at Lindell Boulevard and DeBaliviere Avenue in Forest Park.

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Free: Missouri History Museum Program To Describe Technological Leaps In Civil War

The Missouri History Museum will present a program on the technological leaps that both the North and the South produced in the Civil War. The event will be at noon Tuesday, May 14, 2013, in the AT&T Multipurpose Room.

The war brought such advances as the machine gun and instantaneous communication, the museum notes.

The museum is located at Lindell Boulevard and DeBaliviere Avenue in Forest Park.

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Free: Missouri History Museum Presents 'How We Got Here' About Early St. Louis

View of St. Louis from the northeast in 1840

“How We Got Here,”a two-part series about the early history of St. Louis, will begin at 10:15 a.m. Monday, May 13, 2013, at the Missouri History Museum. The series will be in the AT&T Foundation Multipurpose Room.

Monday’ session discusses the region before Europeans arrive. The second part at the same time on Monday, May 20, will look at French explorers and the city’s early history.

The museum is located at Lindell Boulevard and DeBaliviere Avenue in Forest Park.

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Free: Missouri History Museum To Present Stories About Butterflies

The Missouri History Museum will present stories about butterflies at 10:30 a.m. Friday, May 10, 2013. People should ask about the event’s location at the museum information desk.

The museum is located at Lindell Boulevard and DeBaliviere Avenue in Forest Park.

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Free: Panel To Discuss Media Coverage Of Food

How the media cover food will be the topic of the May event in the Society of Professional Journalist’s  News at Noon Speaker series. The panel discussion will begin at noon Thursday, May 9, 2013, at the AT&T Foundation Multipurpose Room of the Missouri History Museum.

On the panel are Catherine Neville, editor and publisher of Feast magazine; Suzanne Corbett, an author whose works include a Soulard Market cookbook, and Suzanne Boyle, food writer for the Belleville News-Democrat.

The museum is located at Lindell Boulevard and DeBaliviere Avenue in Forest Park.

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Free: Lecture On Genghis Khan, Mongol Empire At Missouri History Museum

Genghis Khan

William Fitzhugh, director of the Arctic Studies Center and a curator of archaeology at the National Museum of Natural History of the Smithsonian Institution, will discuss Genghis Khan and the Mongol empire. The event will be at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, May 8, 2013, at the Missouri History Museum. He will speak in the Lee Auditorium.

The Archaelogical Institute of America co-sponsors the event.

The museum is located at Lindell Boulevard and DeBaliviere Avenue in Forest Park.

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Free: Gospel Concert At Missouri History Museum

The Missouri History Museum will host a concert of Gospel and other inspirational music at 6 p.m. Tuesday, May 7, 2013, on the museum’s front lawn.

Singers Cedric Shannon Rives, Amber Bullock and Michael Lampkin, will perform.

The museum is located at Lindell Boulevard and DeBaliviere Avenue in Forest Park.

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