All Things to Do

183 North Main Ste. Geneviève, MO 63670 573-535-9056 Call for admittance. In Masquerade on Main, visitors can strike a pose or take a selfie at one of several creative scenes. Take pictures in, on, and around these current scenes: an old-timey scene, a Goth / Cathedral scene, a saloon, a pirate ship, steampunk, Day of the Dead / Voodoo / Halloween, a sparkly Forest, a cemetery, and a brick wall. Pose in either in your street clothes ($1), with props ($5), or in the hundreds of costumes for men women, and children ($20). There are no set hours yet, but call to get in at almost any time. Read more…

May 20-21, 2023 The Ste. Geneviève Master Gardeners’ annual Garden Walk is held in the downtown historic district the weekend following Mother’s Day. It is a unique opportunity to tour private and public gardens. Several gardens are part of historic homes in Ste. Geneviève and are typical of the 18th-century time period. Other activities include a Master Gardeners’ plant sale, private vendors, discounts at participating downtown merchants, art exhibits, and on Saturday, the Farmers Market. Read more…

198 South 2nd Street Ste. Geneviève, MO 63670 573-883-9622 Speakers’ Bureau Catalog The Mecker Research Library was founded to provide a central location for materials concerning the historic Ste. Geneviève District and the surrounding region. This is a non-circulating library open on Mondays and Thursdays from 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m., other times by appointment. It contains resources for researchers studying French American Colonial History, the Ste. Geneviève District, and the mid–Mississippi Valley region as well as indexes of related historic written materials available at public institutions in the region. The Mecker Library also maintains files to identify private sources of information that are helpful to persons researching the history of the region. Mecker Library maintains a Speakers Bureau presenting informative presentations on the area, its people, and customs at no cost for nonprofit organizations. Read more…

Wednesday, July 13, 2022 Location: Historic Downtown Ste. Geneviève 800-373-7007 573-883-7097 Enjoy a Christmas-in-July-themed shopping extravaganza on the second Wednesday in July. Participating shops in the Historic District will be open from 6:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. and offer special discounts. Sponsored by Downtown Ste. Geneviève 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…