Inspiring The Earliest Learners
Children are natural-born scientists but need rich learning environments, prepared teachers, and engaged families to feed their natural curiosity. Carnegie Science Center is leading the way.
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What’s a Coryphodon?
A Carnegie Museum of Natural History anatomist is leading a major new study aimed at telling a new, more informed story of long-lost mammals and humans’ evolutionary past.
The Unforgettable DODO
An immersive theater production featuring actors, scientists, and the expanse of Carnegie Museums’ historic Oakland building, Bricolage’s DODO set a whole new standard.
Face Time: Ingrid Schaffner
Once a year, curator Ingrid Schaffner delivers a lecture titled What Is Contemporary? She begins with a declaration: “I will never answer this, so come back next year.” Then she
News Worthy
Technological sleuthing Since Carnegie Museum of Art acquired the Teenie Harris Archive in 2001, its caretakers have been working feverishly to identify the people and places captured in as many
President’s Note
Photo: Joshua Franzos Nothing does my heart quite as much good as seeing children in the museums. School groups, little ones in strollers, babies in their parents’ arms—the noise and
Face Time: Cecile Shellman
When Cecile Shellman speaks about why a person might feel excluded, alienated, or worse yet, not worthy, she speaks from someplace deep inside where she usually doesn’t like to go.
Face Time: Richard Pell
Richard Pell is an unlikely person to start a new scientific museum, especially one receiving international acclaim. He is, after all, an artist who never took a science course after
Call of the Wild
How Childs Frick, son of Pittsburgh industrialist Henry Clay Frick, provided the foundation for Carnegie Museum of Natural History’s world-class collection of African mammals.
Art as an Equalizer
A new program at The Andy Warhol Museum makes it a more welcoming destination for visitors with autism and sensory sensitivities.
Earth in the Age of Humans
For the first time in Earth’s history, humankind is the single greatest force shaping the planet’s future. Welcome to the Anthropocene.
News Worthy
Sparking a future in STEM Call it a grand finale, and then some. On June 28, Carnegie Science Center announced a $7.5 million gift from PPG and the PPG Foundation
Face Time: Abigail DeVille
[media-credit name=”Photo: Melissa Blackall/The Cooper Gallery” align=”alignnone” width=”500″] photo: Melissa Blackall/The Cooper Gallery [/media-credit] Abigail DeVille is an artist unafraid to dig deep. Whether creating paintings, sculptures, installations, or performance
President’s Note
[media-credit name=”Photo: Joshua Franzos” align=”alignnone” width=”500″][/media-credit] Last April I found myself on the stage of Carnegie Music Hall, questioning Pulitzer Prize- and National Book Award-winning novelist Annie Proulx about why
Fantastical Journeys
Artist Ian Cheng uses the language of video games to create animated worlds that challenge our senses and emotions.
Animal Attraction
Carnegie Museum of Natural History’s live animal collection, and its passionate caretakers, are making lasting impressions.
Making the Difference
Can kids who are blind and visually impaired enjoy the digital makerspace experience? Carnegie Science Center says yes, and took its Mobile Fab Lab to Erie to prove it.
Decoding the Black Bodies and Black Spaces of the Hill District
Artist and Academy Award-nominated cinematographer Bradford Young takes Teenie Harris’ Pittsburgh as his subject, hoping to “crack the code” of the master documentarian.
Finding Acceptance at The Warhol
Teenagers find fun, inspiration, and tolerance at The Andy Warhol Museum’s fourth annual LGBTQ+ Youth Prom.
Cowboys and Kitsch
Iranian post-Pop sensation Farhad Moshiri brings his wide-eyed view of the world to The Warhol.
Belonging to Nature
Carnegie Museum of Natural History confronts the fragile interconnectedness of humans and nature.
