Illustration: Sam Falconer
Shining a light on how we humans affect the world around us—and how we can use that power for good.
In a major reinstallation of its decorative arts and design galleries, Carnegie Museum of Art celebrates the evocative and the everyday.
Thanks to the kindness and the commitment of a Museum of Art docent, the story of Daisy Curry didn’t end with the much-revered photo on the wall of the Teenie Harris gallery.
Four researchers at Carnegie Museum of Natural History recount what ignited their fervor for the natural world.
Passionate about creating opportunities for women, one donor couple helps amplify their work.
A glimpse at something new, novel, or rarely seen at Carnegie Museums.
They’re finding ways to adapt to climate change, heal the earth, and build resilience in their communities. Carnegie Museum of Natural History joins them in asking: What role will you play?
Led by creator and longtime curator Ben Harrison, the convention-defying offerings of the Sound Series are back.
A new perspective on familiar offerings at Carnegie Museums.
Charles “Teenie” Harris, Children at play, street no. 8, c. 1960, Carnegie Museum of Art, Heinz Family Fund
Summer in Pittsburgh, c. 1960. Charles “Teenie” Harris (1908–1998) photographed Pittsburgh’s African American community from 1935 to 1975. His archive of nearly 80,000 images, housed at Carnegie Museum of Art, is one of the most detailed and intimate records of the black urban experience known today
Heather Tomko
In her lifestyle blog, Heather Tomko shares hot takes on style and Pittsburgh coffee shops, mixed in with personal details of living with spinal muscular atrophy, a rare genetic neuromuscular disease. Using a wheelchair for mobility, Tomko’s goal is to show how her life is different, and not so different, from those of other people. After a frustrating ordeal trying to find an accessible restaurant on a Saturday night in New York City, Tomko returned home with a mission to create change. Three short years later, the 31-year-old is a full-fledged public health and disability rights activist.
Easily one of the coolest—and most unique—experiences at Carnegie Museum of Natural History is peering inside its fossil preparation laboratory, PaleoLab. It’s a literal window to where scientific preparators, depending on the task, patiently and meticulously clean, chip, scrape, sculpt, or even super-glue together the fossils and fossil replicas of prehistoric behemoths—all while the public curiously looks on.
