Missouri State Museum

It was founded in 1919 and is located in Jefferson City, Missouri, inside the state capitol on the ground floor of the building.

[1] The museum's mission is to explore Missouri's history and resources to discover connections that inspire the present and enrich the future.

The museum offers a variety of free in-house public programming, outreach programming and traveling exhibits geared toward all ages and audiences.

The museum has over 30,000 artifacts in its collection, including the largest collections of Missouri Civil War battle flags and World War I flags.

In that year the Missouri Department of Natural Resources (DNR) took control of the museum where it has remained ever since.