- This article is about an organization that operates
museums. For the foundation which supports scientific
research, refer to the Carnegie Institution of
Washington. For the center of higher learning which
is now a part of Carnegie Mellon University
, refer to Carnegie Institute of
Technology.
Carnegie Museums of
Pittsburgh are four museums that are operated by the
Carnegie Institute headquartered in the Oakland neighborhood of Pittsburgh
, Pennsylvania
. Two of the Carnegie museums, the Carnegie Museum
of Natural History
and the Carnegie Museum of Art
, are both located in the Carnegie Institute and
Library complex in Oakland, a landmark building listed on the
National Register
of Historic Places (ref #79002158, added 1979) that also houses
the Carnegie Music Hall and the main branch of the Carnegie Library
of Pittsburgh
. The other two museums, The Andy Warhol
Museum
and the Carnegie Science Center
, are located in separate facilities on Pittsburgh's
North
Shore
.
Andy Warhol Museum
Andy Warhol Museum
on
May 15,
1994, the
Andy Warhol Museum is the largest museum
in the world dedicated to one artist. The museum's collection
includes over 4,000 Warhol art works in all
media -
paintings,
drawings,
print,
photographs,
sculptures, and
installation; the entire
Andy Warhol Video Collection,
228 four minute
Screen Tests, and 45
other films by Warhol; and extensive archives, most notably
Warhol's
Time Capsules. While
dedicated to Andy Warhol, the museum also hosts many exhibits by
artists who push the boundaries of art, just as Warhol did.
Carnegie Museum of Art
Carnegie Museum of Art's Sarah Scaife
Gallery annex
When
Andrew Carnegie envisioned a
museum collection consisting of the "Old Masters of tomorrow", the
Carnegie Museum of Art became, arguably, the first museum of
modern art in the United States. Founded
in 1895, today it continues Carnegie's love of
contemporary art by staging the
Carnegie International every few
years. Numerous significant works from the Internationals have been
acquired for museum's permanent collection including
Winslow Homer's
The Wreck (1896) and
James A. McNeill Whistler's
Arrangement
in Black: Portrait of Señor Pablo de Sarasate (1884).
The
marble Hall of
Sculpture replicates the interior of the Parthenon
. The
Hall of
Architecture contains the largest collection of
plaster casts of architectural masterpieces in
America and one of the three largest in the world. The
Heinz Architectural Center,
opened as part of the museum in 1993, is dedicated to the
collection, study, and exhibition of architectural drawings and
models. In 2001 the museum acquired the archive of
African-American photographer
Charles "Teenie" Harris, consisting of
approximately 80,000 photographic negatives spanning from the 1930s
to the 1970s.
Many of these images have been catalogued and
digitized and are available online via the Carnegie Museum
of Art Collections Search.
The museum's permanent collection includes European and American
decorative arts from the late seventeenth century to the present,
works on paper, paintings, prints (notably Japanese prints),
sculptures and installations
Carnegie Museum of Natural History
Carnegie Museum of Natural
History
From the discovery of
Diplodocus
carnegii to the
skull of
Samson, the most complete
Tyrannosaurus rex skull known to date,
and the brand new, yet to be named, species of
oviraptorosaur the Carnegie Museum of Natural
History has one of the finest
dinosaur
collections in the world. Other exhibits include the
Hillman Hall of Minerals and
Gems, the
Alcoa Foundation Hall of
American Indians,
Polar World: Wyckoff
Hall of Arctic Life, the
Walton Hall of Ancient Egypt,
the
Benedum Hall of Geology
and the
Powdermill Nature
Reserve, established by the museum in 1956 to serve as a field
station for long-term studies of natural populations. The museum
also recently discovered the
Fruitafossor
windscheffeli.
Carnegie Science Center
Carnegie Science Center
Opened in 1991, but with a history that dates to
October 24,
1939, the
Carnegie Science Center is the most visited museum in Pittsburgh.
Among its
attractions are the newly constructed Buhl Digital Dome (which features the
latest in projection), the Rangos
Omnimax Theater, SportsWorks,
the Miniature Railroad
& Village, and the USS Requin
, a World War II
submarine.
Under the leadership of
Robert
Wilburn, Buhl Science Center merged with the Carnegie Institute
and a new $40 million Carnegie Science Center was
constructed.
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