Museums
Rainy-Day PickCarnegie Museum of Art
$25–$50Walk through galleries of painting, sculpture and design, plus a hall filled with full-size plaster casts of historic buildings.
Transit: reachable by public transit
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Carnegie Museum of Natural History
See mounted dinosaur skeletons, minerals and gems, ancient Egypt and Arctic life across 20 galleries.
4400 Forbes Ave · Pittsburgh, PA
About Carnegie Museum of Natural History
Andrew Carnegie founded this museum in Pittsburgh's Oakland neighborhood in 1896, and it holds about 22 million specimens, with roughly 10,000 on view at a time. Its dinosaur collection includes Diplodocus carnegii, unearthed in 1899, and the first Tyrannosaurus rex specimen, shown in the Dinosaurs in Their Time hall. Other halls cover minerals and gems, ancient Egypt, geology and Arctic life, and admission covers the Carnegie Museum of Art in the same building.
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