Soldiers Memorial Military Museum

This historic museum is well worth your time. There are sections for WWI, WW2, Korea, Vietnam, along with previous and subsequent conflicts. Great opportunities to learn about war-related St. Louis historical events, including this facility's dedication. The interiors are clean and well-maintained. Displays and artifacts are outstanding. Staff is friendly and helpful. Entry is free; donations accepted.

Great museum honoring America’s Armed Forces and the men and women that serve. Special shout out to the very nice gentleman at the front counter - I think his name was Andrew. It was my first time visiting, and have gave a spiel to me that was so impressive I made 2 voluntary donations when I was done! There is no cost to enter the museum, but they do take cash (and card) donations.

My 10yr old who loves military history LOVED this museum. He asked to go a second time but we weren’t able to fit it into our trip. It’s free which is amazing and the displays were so captivating for my son. On the outside you wouldn’t think much of it, but there are 2 floors filled with rich history, displays and more on both the East and west side of each floor.

Great museum. Gorgeous on the outside with a very cool reflecting/infinity pond outside. 3 rooms of military history and a 4th room addressing veteran homelessness. All geared towards capturing the sacrifice and commitments of St Louis veterans. In military fashion, I'm going to provide some sustains and improves. Sustain: the Vietnam section is very well done, fully encompassing both military and cultural events of the time. It was the most inclusive exhibit. Free, self guided tours. Great way to get everyone to come visit and learn, especially school children growing up in a time of relative peace, unfamiliar with mass deployments. Other: Lots of individual displays. Good capture of some heroic feats of St Louis natives. Easy to read murals. Wide walkways for crowds. Security. Volunteer staff to answer questions. Improve: I called ahead to ask where we should park. We were directed to the parking garage. Apparently our group was supposed to get free parking signs but we weren't aware until our tour person met up with us. The city has street parking available and needs to fix it. Several spots aren't in the kiosk and I had to move my car to find a number the machine would take. One of our party paid for parking and still got a $30 ticket from the meter maid. There is a through street right in front of the museum and doesn't have stop signs. People are flying down that street and I almost got hit. That road needs to be closed. As a currently serving veteran I was looking forward to the WW2 to modern times exhibit and was disappointed with the lack of GWOT material. It basically didn't exist. Compared to Vietnam getting a giant multi room display all to itself, there was a short wall with a few items for our recently ended conflicts. I think current servicemembers who've been in the Middle East and Southwest Asia deserve similar treatment and hope OIF/OEF will be given a similar exhibit in the future. There's a kiosk that you can enter info on to see locally serving members and of course we all looked for our names in there and couldn't find them. No information on how to get added to that registry. Overall, I'll be back with my kids next time, cause we like museums, but I'd sure love a way to show my kids more about what their dad has done for 25 years.