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Celebrate Missouri Botanical Garden Founder's Birthday With Free Admission On July 24

The Missouri Botanical Garden is throwing a birthday party! On Sunday, July 24, enjoy old-fashioned entertainment and free Garden and Children’s Garden admission all day long in honor of Garden’s founder Henry Shaw’s 211th birthday. 

Celebrate the occasion with family-friendly activities from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. “Henry Shaw” himself will greet guests to the birthday bash – look for him strolling the Garden grounds, dressed in his familiar black top hat, alongside other actors dressed in vintage Victorian costumes. Have your silhouette portrait drawn by an artist, witness the agility of a stilt walker and listen to whimsical tunes performed by an organ grinder. Watch a special puppetry performance by Bob Kramer’s Marionettes at 10:30 a.m., noon and 1:30 p.m. outdoors on Spoehrer Plaza.

Enjoy the beauty of the Garden grounds and Doris I. Schnuck Children’s Garden, offering free July 24thadmission from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Take a tour of Tower Grove House, Shaw’s original country estate, open from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

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