PA Getaway

Landmark building · Pittsburgh, Allegheny County

Cathedral of Learning

Cathedral of Learning: Cathedral of Learning at the University of Pittsburgh, Photo Credit: https://www.flickr.com/photos/pjah73/410669224/
Photo: Pjah73 at English Wikipedia, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Rising 42 stories at the heart of the university campus, a Gothic skyscraper with a vaulted stone Commons Room and the Nationality Rooms, classrooms styled after cultures worldwide.

What you will find

  • Historic features

Make a day of it

Nearby

  • Carnegie Museum of Natural History

    Natural history museum · 0 miles away

    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.

  • Soldiers and Sailors Memorial Hall and Museum

    Military museum · 0 miles away

    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.

  • Carnegie Museum of Art

    Art museum · 0 miles away

    Ancient to contemporary art, a Hall of Architecture filled with plaster casts of great buildings, and the long-running Carnegie International exhibition.

  • Phipps Conservatory and Botanical Gardens

    Conservatory and botanical garden · 0 miles away

    Orchids, tropical forest rooms and seasonal flower shows fill a glittering 1893 Victorian glasshouse in Schenley Park, beside a pioneering green building.

  • Schenley Park

    City park · 1 miles away

    A big wooded park on the edge of the university district, with Phipps Conservatory, the trails and lake of Panther Hollow, a public golf course, a running track and an ice rink.

  • Heinz History Center

    History museum · 2 miles away

    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.