Past: The Nineteenth Annual BOOTHEEL YOUTH MUSEUM Mardi Gras Benefit Dinner and Auction

All proceeds from this event fund the Bootheel Youth Museum. More than a quarter century has passed from the “why not” through the “we can” to the “we will” and now “we are”. The mission of the Bootheel Youth Museum is to foster an unquenchable thirst for knowledge and an insatiable curiosity about life. The museum has grown from its original 50 hands-on exhibits to fully occupy our 45,000 sq. ft. retired bottling plant with over 250 hands on exhibits and activities which includes the themed areas BYM Children Village, This Island Mars: A Space Adventure, Missouri Nature, Shadow Room, Bubble Room. Making Tracks on the Lewis and Clark Trail and Punky’s Lab. This annual fundraising event hosts over 600 guests and raises over $80,000 annually. Contributions from this event make the impossible possible!