Join us for a unique opportunity to get up close and personal with artifacts from our Collection. Several items not usually on display will be available for visitors to engage with, a first-hand experience to learn what goes into preserving and documenting our artifacts. This is your chance to get your “hands on history.” This...
Join the Museum, in partnership with the Jewish Federation of St. Louis, for a powerful panel on the surge of antisemitism, conspiracy culture, and online radicalization. Hear from leading experts on how hate spreads, why conspiracy thinking takes hold, and what each of us can do to recognize, resist, and respond to antisemitism. Moderator: Mark Weitzman is...
Through the larger theme of “More than Just Old Stuff” this session of Inside the Vault will be discussing the importance of context in telling stories about museum objects. Join our Archives & Collections staff to get a behind-the-scenes look at why our collection is the way it is and also help you better understand what our...
Join the Museum for Survivor Hour with Holocaust survivor, Eva Weyl. Eva Weyl was born on 7 June 1935 in Arnhem in the Netherlands. Her parents had previously emigrated from Germany to the Netherlands. Her grandfathers soon followed her to the Netherlands, where Eva had a wonderful childhood until she and her family were sent...
Through the larger theme of “More than Just Old Stuff” this Inside the Vault session will be discussing the ways museum measure value when it comes to artifacts and objects. Join our Archives & Collections staff to better understand what our archives team’s role is at the museum!
Through the larger theme of “More than Just Old Stuff” this Inside the Vault session will be highlighting our unique oral history collection and discussing the role of first-person testimony in museum archives. Join our Archives & Collections staff to better understand what our archives team’s role is at the museum!