Museums in Pittsburgh & Its Countryside 15
Art, history, science, railroad and children's museums.
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Kamin Science Center
Formerly the Carnegie Science Center and renamed the Kamin Science Center in 2025, with hands-on exhibits, a planetarium, a detailed miniature railroad and village, and the submarine USS Requin outside.
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Meadowcroft Rockshelter and Historic Village
A rock overhang holding some of the oldest evidence of people in North America, with a re-created 16th-century Indian village and a 19th-century rural village.
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Old Economy Village
The final home of the Harmony Society, a celibate Christian community, with their 1820s brick and frame buildings, craft workshops and formal garden.
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The Frick Pittsburgh
Henry Clay Frick's restored mansion, Clayton, along with a car and carriage museum, an art museum and a greenhouse on landscaped grounds.
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Andy Warhol Museum
Seven floors devoted to Andy Warhol, with paintings, films, time capsules and a room of floating silver pillows to play among.
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Carnegie Museum of Art
Ancient to contemporary art, a Hall of Architecture filled with plaster casts of great buildings, and the long-running Carnegie International exhibition.
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Carnegie Museum of Natural History
Dinosaurs posed in lifelike scenes, among them Dippy the Diplodocus and the first Tyrannosaurus rex ever described, plus a dazzling hall of minerals and gems.
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Children's Museum of Pittsburgh
Hands-on play for kids in the old Allegheny post office and Buhl Planetarium buildings, with a makerspace, water-play room and art studio.
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Fort Pitt Museum
Inside a reconstructed bastion of the 1760s fort at the Point, exhibits tell the story of the French and Indian War and the struggle for the forks of the Ohio.
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Heinz History Center
Western Pennsylvania history in a former ice warehouse in the Strip District, with sets from Mister Rogers' Neighborhood and a sports museum full of local legends.
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Jimmy Stewart Museum
The actor's hometown museum, with posters, costumes and personal mementos tracing his life from local hardware-store son to Hollywood star and wartime bomber pilot.
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Mattress Factory
Room-size art installations you walk into, including permanent works by James Turrell and Yayoi Kusama, in former factory buildings on the North Side.
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Pennsylvania Trolley Museum
Ride restored streetcars along a country line and tour barns full of trolleys from across Pennsylvania and beyond, including a New Orleans car from the famed Desire line.
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Soldiers and Sailors Memorial Hall and Museum
Built to honor Civil War veterans, this grand Beaux-Arts memorial hall now salutes all branches of the military, with artifacts from the Civil War to recent conflicts.
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Randyland
Randy Gilson's riotously colorful folk-art house and courtyard, painted in every hue and filled with found objects, a favorite photo stop in the North Side's Mexican War Streets.
