Winter 2021
Cover Story
Beltzhoover native and one-time museum “art kid” Sharif Bey returns to his childhood museums to mine the collections that helped shape his creative identity.
Featured Stories
Out of the Ashes
A traveling exhibition now at Carnegie Science Center tells the fascinating story of the lost city of Pompeii.
Marisol & Warhol, Reunited
By placing Marisol’s work in dialogue with Andy Warhol’s, a new exhibition reclaims her influence as a leading figure of the Pop art movement.
125 Years: A History in Objects
The final installment in a series celebrating 125 years of Carnegie Museums by telling the stories of 125 museum objects.
Also in this Issue
Q+A: Taiji Nelson
In conversation with the senior program manager of Carnegie Museum of Natural History's Climate and Rural Systems Partnership.
Connecting through Art
One Museum of Art donor gives back to the place that helped him make sense of life as an inquisitive teenager.
Objects of Our Affection: Mountain goats in the Hall of North American Wildlife
Carnegie Museums is home to some of the most significant collections in the world. Here we showcase some of the most compelling objects.

Big Picture
Step into an underwater world in Carnegie Museum of Natural History’s Cretaceous Seaway, a unique section of the Dinosaurs in Their Time exhibition. It brings to life the Western Interior Seaway, a shallow ocean that existed in the Midwestern United States 80 million years ago. In this scene, the agile marine reptile Dolichorhynchops tries to make a meal out of the penguin-like bird Hesperornis.