A Cochiti storyteller figure and Andy Warhol’s Tunafish Disaster. Big Joe’s muscle and a heartbeat drum. A celebration of 125 years of Carnegie Museums continues through the stories of iconic, quirky, and little-known pieces of museum history.
Four researchers at Carnegie Museum of Natural History recount what ignited their fervor for the natural world.
Astronomers are deploying the plucky rover and its helicopter sidekick to explore new parts of the red planet and learn whether alien organisms once lived there.
Through expressions of grief, fear, and rage, how artists have helped us make sense of past pandemics.
Two Black women in conversation about making art and making a life in Pittsburgh.
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.
Carnegie Museum of Art continues to connect art and wellness, a salve for challenging times.
In conversation with the caretaker of the USS Requin.
Carnegie Museum of Natural History researchers are on the front lines of climate science, tracking the complex changes unfolding right here in western Pennsylvania.
Fall is an exciting and busy time for our avian researchers at Powdermill Nature Reserve, Carnegie Museum of Natural History’s environmental research center in Rector Pennsylvania. As birds migrate south, thousands fly through Powdermill, where they are identified, banded, and studied before they continue their long journey to their winter nesting grounds.
Marcus Harshaw
Marcus Harshaw is senior director of museum experiences, a new position at Carnegie Science Center. When people ask him what that entails, he says, “I oversee all the fun stuff”—a long list that includes permanent and traveling exhibitions, The Rangos Giant Cinema, Highmark SportsWorks®, the USS Requin (SS 481) submarine, the Miniature Railroad & Village®, and Buhl Planetarium. Harshaw’s path to the fun stuff wasn’t a straight one. He managed a pizza chain before attending college for education. Then he started a career based on his childhood love: museums. He’s held senior learning and community engagement posts at the Cincinnati Museum Center, the Indiana Historical Society, and the Kaleideum science center in North Carolina.
