By MATT PIKE
St. Joseph Post
Several museums around St. Joseph and throughout the St. Joseph area will welcome visitors for free next weekend.
Free Museum Day will open the doors to people for free in several St. Joseph museums, and even museums in Andrew County.
Convention and Visitors Bureau spokesman Christian Mengel says the event first began last year with several museums coming together to plan it
“If you do have kids, you’re on a tight budget, you want to do something fun and you’re not sure what to do, you can make a full day of it just kind of museum hopping and getting different history, different experiences from place to place,” Mengel tells KFEQ Hotline host Barry Birr. “Last year some of these places, I think they saw about 1,000 people in a single museum.”
Mengel says many of the popular museums in the area will be participating
“It is the ones that you think of, with Pony Express, and the Albrecht Kemper, and Robidoux Row, those are all part of it,” Mengel says.
“Glore?” Birr interjects.
“Yeah, the Glore Psychiatric Museum, Remington Nature Center, so you can really make a full day of it really easily,” Mengel explains.
A full list of participating museums can be found online, or by clicking HERE.
The end of this month will also bring the second St. Joseph City marathon, following a successful race last year.
Mengel says this year’s race is already on track to be bigger than its inaugural year.
“So far we’re trending about 100 runners more than last year at this time, so every indication is that it’s going to be a bigger marathon than it was last year,” Mengel says. “So we’re obviously looking super forward to that.”
Registration for the race will close prior to the event, with both a full and half marathon, as well as a 10K, 5K, and relay.
The St. Joseph Marathon will happen on September 28th.