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Open seven days a week, Monday through Saturday from 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. and Sunday from 12:00 p.m. to 5:00 P.M. The Centre for French Colonial Life is the headquarters for the French Colonial America museum campus. This building houses changing exhibits, a gift shop, and offices.  Other buildings include the historic Bolduc and Lemeilleur Houses and the Beauvais-Linden Living History house.  Tickets for guided tours of the National Historic Landmark Bolduc House and the neighboring LeMeilleur House may be purchased at the Centre. The Linden House features living history presentations and demonstrations on Saturdays from Late March to early November. At the Centre for French Colonial Life museum, the current special exhibits include:  Saving St. Louis, which tells the story of the 60 militiamen from Ste. Geneviève who helped thwart a British attack in 1780 during the Revolutionary War; and To Shelter and Sustain which explains the origins and construction methods used in the distinctive and unique structures built by the French Creole residents of this region in the 18th and early 19th centuries. Admission to the Centre for French Colonial Life is $10 for adults and $5 for children.  House tours are $15 for adults and $7 for Read more…

Fourth and Merchant streets Ste. Geneviève, MO 63670 573.883.0584 Website This National Register property is owned by the Foundation for Restoration of Ste. Genevieve. Constructed in 1806 for Jacques Jean Rene Guibourd de Luzinais, it is recognized for its authentic “poteaux-sur-solle” (post on a sill) vertical log construction. Only at this site can visitors enter the attic to see and touch the massive Norman truss system made of hewn logs and wooden pins.  The home also features an elegant collection of Louis XV and XVI French antique furnishings and a lovely walled garden. Guided tours are available at 9:15 am and 12:15 pm, seven days a week, April through early December. Other times are available with advance notice. Closed on Easter and Thanksgiving. Admission is $10 for adults and $5 for students. Inquire for group and family rates. During the winter months we offer tours by prior arrangement only. Call 573-883-0584 to schedule an off-season tour. Two days’ notice is appreciated. Read more…

About the Museum Learning Center:  If you’re looking for something that will dazzle you to see in a small town, be sure to stop by the Museums Learning Center (otherwise known as the “Dinosaur Musuem.”  This place is one huge labor of love and a microcosm of what makes this community special.   Your adventure starts in the hall of giants, a room full of massive life-like dinosaur and other Cretaceous Period animal replicas.  Surrounding those are shadow boxes filled with actual fossils from different periods.  On the west end of the hall is a glassed-in room where live Archaeologists periodically work in front of visitors scrupulously chiseling away the clay around the bones of the Missouri dinosaur.  The next layer of exhibits centers around the fossils of that now-famed dinosaur and the current dig happening just south of Sainte Geneviève.  The entire upstairs moves more toward modern times and focuses on interesting collections from a variety of topics, from Civil War Battlefields, to the objects found buried in the outhouses that used to reside in the yards of early St. Louisans.  The story that you won’t get that makes this so impressive is the collections on display, and the dinosaur Read more…

Nested comfortably in the shadow of the Sainte Geneviève Catholic Church, the Sainte Geneviève Art Center & Museum at 310 Merchant Street provides a space that illuminates the city’s important role in the country’s art heritage. Housed in a stately Norman-Revival stone building originally built in 1934 in preparation for the city’s bicentennial celebration, this space now showcases both the history of Sainte Geneviève Art Colony alongside the talented crop of artists that call this city home. Visitors can explore exhibits that span from the regionalist art movements rooted in Ste. Geneviève’s past to contemporary works in painting, fiber arts, ceramics, wood sculpture, and more. The Art Center is also home to the Ste. Geneviève Art Guild, an inclusive community of artists and arts enthusiasts. Founded in 1983, the Guild hosts regular member exhibitions, educational programs, workshops for all ages, and outreach efforts that connect the arts to the wider community. Through these programs, the Guild not only provides opportunities for emerging and established artists to display work and grow their craft but also plays an active role in preserving and perpetuating the town’s longstanding artistic tradition. For visitors, the Art Center & Museum is more than just a place Read more…