St. Louis Sound Exhibit at the Missouri History Museum is Worth The Visit [PHOTOS]

Guests view instruments on display at the beginning of the exhibit.

The entry to the St. Louis Sound exhibit.

Museum guest Jane Bergman looks at the different methods of listening to music.

Andrew Wanko, public historian for the Missouri History Museum, explains the different musical eras that St. Louis has influenced.

Museum guests listen to Andrew Wanko as he explains some of the pieces of the exhibit.

The Welders were a St. Louis all-female punk rock group in 1975, the year before the Clash or the Ramones put out albums.

"They sort of like made the scene and this was the band everyone was talking about," Wanko said. "So we wanted to tell these stories sort of alongside some of those bigger stories, they were beyond thrilled that they were an exhibit that also featured Tina Turner. They never could have guessed that."

Jane Bergman reads one of the exhibit displays.

The museum features several outfits from prominent St. Louis musicians.

Andrew Wanko tells museum guests about the Mississippi Nights display. Next to the display, there's a trivia game and a section on mixing boards created in St. Louis.

The museum's section on Josephine Baker has a video of her dancing and one of her outfits.

A museum guest watches the video of Josephine Baker dancing.

The piano of blues musician Henry Townsend is also on display in the exhibit.

Henry Townsend's piano keys have letters written on them for the lessons Townsend gave.

Guests can scan a QR code to listen to a playlist that coincides with different displays.

The exhibit has a timeline of radio along with artifacts from the time period.

"We like doing these maps because so many of these places are gone. Now it's hard to picture where this was actually happening in town," Wanko says. "St. Louis has changed so drastically from the 1920s that it actually sort of helps locate these places where they are today."

Costumes from Scott Joplin's failed opera are on display. Joplin himself never saw the opera successfully performed, but East St. Louis dancer Catherine Dunham staged the first ever performance at Morehouse College in Atlanta.

"[Joplin] tried so desperately and no one would take him up on it. He tried to stage his own performance with no kind costumes, no theatrics," Wanko said. "The couple of people who showed up left bewildered, and he went to his grave angry that Treemonisha did not become his legacy."

Museum guests discuss the exhibit.

Tina Turner's New Years Eve dress is on display, alongside pieces of the club she performed at with Ike Turner.

An artifact in the museum.