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Videos Beyond Hollywood Hungerlust Pioneers of love. Alexia Wulff. Give us feedback. Read Next View. Louis, Missouri. Hand Picked Places to Stay in St. The connecting park isn't terribly wide - just shy of the foot width which would have defined the structure as a tunnel, rather than a bridge, requiring costly ventilation and other mandated changes.
But it is wide enough to include trees and benches and arcing paths that attract a lunchtime crowd, dog walkers, joggers and tourists from the nearby hotels. It also emphasizes a connection between the arch and the historic courthouse which faces it, the courthouse where Dred Scott pursued his freedom from slavery, and where a Missouri judge decided that allowing an enslaved person to claim freedom because they resided in a free state would lead to the inevitable "overthrow and destruction of our government.
The arch grounds now flow seamlessly into the plaza that fronts the courthouse and lead visitors to the sunken, glass-walled entrance to the museum. Before the design changes, there was nothing to indicate that the arch park had anything in it other than an arch, and visitors encountered the underground museum as a sideshow to the main attraction, which was a ride in the cramped and clanking elevator cars that deliver people to the observation room atop the foot tall structure.
Now, visitors are greeted by a semicircular and embracing entrance, from which they descend into the museum via a large, open atrium with a terrazzo map of North America on the mezzanine floor, showing the main migration routes during the era of westward expansion. Giant video screens project images of buffalo running, and wagon trains moving through a backdrop of mountains and open range.
These videos set a slightly odd tone - grand and nostalgic - which isn't sustained in the rest of the museum. The new exhibitions, created by Haley Sharpe Design, are more substantial, extending the story of westward migration back to the colonial days of St.
Louis, and grappling with the fundamental questions posed by the historical narrative. In a gallery devoted to Manifest Destiny, wall panels ask not only "How the West Was Won," but was the west "stolen," and what of the North - as Mexico understood the same land - and was it "stolen" too?
Videos allow Native Americans to address these questions in personal ways, and take stock of the dreadful loss of life, land and culture that came with European incursion into the continent.
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