"This isn’t a campaign to meet goals that are far off in a future we’re only dreaming about. It’s a campaign about making the most of our incredible assets today in order to build a stronger and even more far-reaching family of museums tomorrow."
- David Hillenbrand

PHOTO: Copyright, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, 2006, all rights reserved.  Reprinted with permission.

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This fall has been quite eventful at Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh. Carnegie Museum of Art opened its delightful current exhibition, Louis Comfort Tiffany: Artist for the Ages. Carnegie Science Center unveiled its new Buhl Digital Dome, which incorporates the state of the art in planetarium video projection coupled with a direct link to NASA’s incredible database of the latest images from space. The Andy Warhol Museum launched a truly groundbreaking online curriculum, through which teachers can download lesson plans that use the art and life of Andy Warhol to engage students in the humanities (see story). Carnegie Museum of Natural History completed the construction of its new dinosaur exhibit spaces and will soon begin creating the real-life environments that our dinosaurs will eventually live in come November 2007. And, after months of planning, we launched an exciting new Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh website that acknowledges our many audiences and their diverse interests (see story). The site also speaks to the great diversity of our four museums, cross-referencing visitors to information about all the wonderful things our four museums are and featuring a complete daily calendar of all that’s happening at our museums. Please take a look at www.carnegiemuseums.org—and please visit often!

To cap it all off, on November 8, we were pleased to announce the public phase of Carnegie Museums’ Building the Future campaign, which you can read more about here. This isn’t a campaign to meet goals that are far off in a future we’re only dreaming about. It’s a campaign about making the most of our incredible assets today in order to build a stronger and even more far-reaching family of museums tomorrow.

We’re so fortunate to be conducting a major campaign with such amazing physical foundations on which to build our future—from the historic Oakland facility that houses Carnegie Museums of Art and Natural History, to Carnegie Science Center’s riverside campus on Pittsburgh’s North Shore, to The Andy Warhol Museum strategically located across the river from downtown Pittsburgh, connected by the newly named Andy Warhol Bridge.

We’re also extremely fortunate and proud to be building our future on a strong foundation of exploration and education. Our museums do both so well. Collectively, they are an amazing resource.

As we begin this final phase of our $150 million Building the Future campaign, it’s my hope that every member of Carnegie Museums, and every resident of this region, will feel a great sense of pride and ownership in Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh. This institution was, after all, created for all of us to enjoy and to support. And we sincerely thank you, our members, and all of the donors to our campaign to date, for Building the Future with us.

Sincerely,

David Hillenbrand, President
Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh

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