Art museum · Pittsburgh, Allegheny County
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.
What you will find
- Museum or exhibits
Make a day of it
Nearby
-
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.
-
National Aviary
Free-flying birds share walk-through habitats with visitors at this zoo just for birds, where penguins, owls and parrots star in close-up encounters.
-
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.
-
Andy Warhol Museum
Seven floors devoted to Andy Warhol, with paintings, films, time capsules and a room of floating silver pillows to play among.
-
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.
-
Point State Park
At the tip of downtown, where the Allegheny and Monongahela meet to form the Ohio, with the great fountain, the Fort Pitt Museum and the 1764 Blockhouse from the frontier fort.
