A collage of objects from the Museum collections

125 Years: A History in Objects

Soot-covered eastern towhees and a basketball-shooting robot. Victorian muses and Andy Warhol’s guard dog. A celebration of 125 years of Carnegie Museums continues through stories of museum objects.

A collection of objects from the museums.

125 Years. 125 Objects. 125 Stories.

A Pennsylvania wildflower and a pedestal fan. A school bus and a shot of homemade lightning. And the dinosaur and one of the first paintings that started it all. To mark 125 years, we’re telling the tales of 125 objects—starting with these 25. Over the next year, ours will be a story, not the story of Carnegie Museums, which begs the question: What would you include?

A wooden Egyptian boat

News Worthy: Spring 2017

A $5 million gift to the future Pittsburgh philanthropists Daniel and Carole Kamin made a $5 million gift to Carnegie Museum of Natural History that will keep on giving for

A portrait of Ashley Cecil in her studio

The Nature of Art

An artist-in-residence at Carnegie Museum of Natural History gives visitors a fresh perspective on the science that’s all around us.

A view of an art gallery with a wooden sphere in the foreground

The World We Made

Ten Pittsburgh-area artists grapple with personal consequences of climate change.

side by side images of Da Vinci's Vitruvian Man and a closely cropped painting beleived to be of Leonardo Da Vinci.

Anatomy of a Genius

Da Vinci The Exhibition makes a case for the wandering mind. Being insatiably curious about absolutely everything is what defined Leonardo da Vinci.

The artist facing to face with a replica of himself made from lego bricks.

A Life in Lego

How a corporate lawyer-turned-artist transformed a favorite childhood toy into sought-after artwork, inspiring countless kids to rethink what is art and who can make it.