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Museum seems like a compulsory destination to be included in a travel plan especially if you want to experience an educational trip. However, let us just be honest here, okay? Who thinks museum is a boring place, please rise up your hand. Wow, almost no fingers remain on the keyboards as most of you put your hands up! ;p

Guess what? I have visited the coolest museum ever! When I say cool, I really mean it. This museum is not a typical museum with merely exhibitions. On contrast, it offers a unique way to learn new things. Sounds absurd? Well okay, hang on for a while because I will prove it to you now!

Situated faraway from the beloved Malaysia yet close to my current residence, this museum is located at downtown Saint Louis, Missouri state, United States of America. As a student, I used my budget trip strategy by going there with my friends with a small rented car. It was a Saturday, therefore parents brought their children along there. Nevertheless, I had never imagined that a museum could be crowded like that! People queued up to buy the entrance tickets as if it was for a movie premiere show.

From the entrance section, the interior design looked amazing. I could see ribbons hanging on the ceiling, slides and cages everywhere, and others. The first sight of the museum made me more eager to enter it.

Once we got the tickets, we went upstairs and beautiful wall ornaments greeted us. Museum is usually a quiet place but we were fed with cheerful music from a piano in the middle of the floor. Anyone could play their own piece on the piano freely. How cool was that! Visiting a museum had never been so relaxing without the urge of being silent.

A museum is not a museum without exhibitions. There were exhibitions of preserved animals, insects, bottles, marbles, architectural designs, weird stuffs, and others. At one corner, a few teenagers were doing acrobatic moves as if they were performing a circus show. Imagine watching acrobatic performance in a museum! Interesting, isn’t it?

Well, everyone knows what a typical museum would have. So let’s just move on to the interesting part. The main point that I want to highlight here is the difference that the museum offers us. A museum is such a quiet, ‘sophisticated’ place that you need to restrain yourself. On the contrary, you can just loosen yourself and enjoy to your heart’s content here. City Museum has many physical exhibitions that involves your participation.

There was an Egyptian section where you could find piles of sponges. Okay…why sponges? So that children could build a huge pyramid from the sponges! Such a creative way of learning, isn’t it?

The museum was literally a different world. You would see visitors regardless of ages and sexes having fun by sliding, crawling, jumping, and climbing around. Even babies enjoyed the slides with their parents! And when I was sitting on a high plank, I suddenly got a knock from beneath. An adult was crawling through a long small path beneath me! Of course I tried the slides with my friend and we had a clumsy fall. LOL! Nevertheless, it was so much fun!

How about a cave exploration? Checked! I couldn’t imagine that such a huge man made cave would be inside a building. It was dark accompanied with some scary music. Everyone explored the cave freely and it was 10 stories high. Of course climbing up the stairs was not easy but the fun part was the way down. We could slide 10 stories down! Awesome! :D

The ultimate surprise was the outdoor set. Wow, you should see with your own eyes! Totally amazing!!! It was so huge, high, and wide. For me it was like the fantasy wild land for everyone. You could crawl and climb everywhere, or even visit a bus and airplane on the trees!