Pittsburgh Sights

  1. Andy Warhol Museum

    The Andy Warhol Museum, celebrates Pittsburgh's coolest native son, who became famous for his pop art, avant-garde movies, celebrity connections and Velvet Underground spectaculars. Exhibits include the classic Campbell's soup cans and celebrity portraits, while the museum's theater hosts frequent film screenings and quirky performers.

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  2. Carnegie Museums

    Near the University are two Carnegie Museums - the Carnegie Museum of Art, with terrific exhibits of architecture, impressionist, post-impressionist and modern American paintings; and the Carnegie Museum of Natural History, featuring a complete Tyrannosaurus skeleton and exhibits on Pennsylvania geology and Inuit prehistory.

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  3. Carnegie Science Center

    Carnegie Science Center, great for kids, is a cut above the average hands-on science museum, with innovative exhibits on subjects from outer space to candy.

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  4. Fort Pitt Museum

    At the triangle's tip is Point State Park, which is popular during summer with strollers, runners and loungers. Its renovated Fort Pitt Museum commemorates the historic heritage of the French and Indian War.

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  5. Frick Art & Historical Center

    East of Oakland, in Point Breeze, is the wonderful Frick Art & Historical Center, which displays some of Henry Clay Frick's Flemish, French and Italian paintings in its Art Museum; assorted Frickmobiles like a 1914 Rolls Royce in the Car & Carriage Museum; more than five acres of grounds and gardens; and Clayton, the restored 1872 Frick mansion.

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  7. Pittsburgh Children's Museum

    The Pittsburgh Children's Museum features a climbable space sculpture, exhibits about Jim Henson and Mister Rogers and some child-friendly Warhol works.

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  8. Senator John Heinz Pittsburgh Regional History Center

    The nicely remodeled brick warehouse that is the Senator John Heinz Pittsburgh Regional History Center offers a good take on the region's past, with exhibits on the French and Indian War, early settlers, immigrants, steel and the glass industry.

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