Final weekend for Mill Creek exhibit at Missouri History Museum

Since opening in November 2025, the Mill Creek: Black Metropolis exhibit at the Missouri History Museum has attracted 120,770 visitors (as of 7/9/26). That number is expected to swell this weekend as the museum plans a number of festivities to celebrate the exhibit's closure. Often called the "Harlem of the Midwest," Mill Creek Valley was a Black neighborhood on the edge of Downtown that was torn down in the name of urban renewal. Hear curator Gwen Moore discuss with Debbie Monterrey what it meant to work on this labor of love. Moore grew up in Mill Creek.