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The Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh are operated by the Carnegie Institute and located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania - Wikipedia /**/ @import /skins/monobook/IE50Fixes. ...

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Andy Warhol Museum

Opened on May 15, 1994, the Andy Warhol Museum is the largest museum in the world dedicated to one artist. The museum's collection includes over 4,000 Warhol art works in all media - paintings, drawings, prints, photographs, sculptures, and installation; the entire Andy Warhol Video Collection, 228 four minute Screen Tests, and 45 other films by Warhol; and extensive archives, most notably Warhol's Time Capsules. While dedicated to Andy Warhol, the museum also hosts many exhibits by artists who push the boundries of art, just as Warhol did. May 15 is the 135th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (136th in leap years). ... 1994 was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International year of the Family. ... Andy Warhol ( August 6, 1928 - February 22, 1987) was an American painter and major figure in the pop art movement. ... Mass media is the term used to denote, as a class, that section of the media specifically conceived and designed to reach a very large audience (typically at least as large as the whole population of a nation state). ... The Mona Lisa is perhaps the best-known artistic painting in the Western world. ... Drawing is one way of making an image: it is the process of making marks on a surface by applying pressure from or moving a tool on the surface. ... Printing is an industrial process for reproducing copies of texts and images, typically with ink on paper using a printing press. ... A photograph (often just called a photo) is an image (or a representation of that on e. ... Sculptor redirects here. ... Installation can be used to refer to Installation (computer programs) of an operating system or program. ...


Carnegie Museum of Art

When Andrew Carnegie envisioned a museum collection consisting of the "Old Masters of tomorrow", the Carnegie Museum of Art became, arguably, the first museum of modern art in the United States. Founded in 1895, today it continues Carnegie's love of contemporary art by staging the Carngie International every few years. The marble Hall of Sculpture replicates the interior of the Parthenon. The Hall of Architecture contains the largest collection of plaster casts of architectural masterpieces in America and one of the three largest in the world. The Heinz Architectural Center, opened as part of the museum in 1993, is dedicated to the collection, study, and exhibition of architectural drawings and models. Andrew Carnegie (November 25, 1835–August 11, 1919) was a Scottish-American businessman and philanthropist. ... For the psychedelic rock band, see The Modern Art. ... 1895 was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). ... The term contemporary art encompasses all art being done now. ... Marble This page is about the metamorphic rock. ... The Parthenon seen from the hill of the Pnyx to the west The Parthenon (Greek: Παρθενων) is the most famous surviving building of Ancient Greece and one of the most famous buildings in the world. ... This article is about the building material. ... 1993 is a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar and marked the Beginning of the International Decade to Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination (1993-2003) Events Media:January January 1 - Czechoslovakia divides. ...


Carnegie Museum of Natural History

From the discovery of Diplodocus carnegii to the skull of Samson, the most complete Tyrannosaurus rex skull known to date, and the brand new, yet to be named, species of oviraptorosaur the Carnegie Museum of Natural History has one of the finest dinosaur collections in the world. Other exhibits include the Hillman Hall of Minerals and Gems, the Alcoa Foundation Hall of American Indians, Polar World: Wyckoff Hall of Arctic Life, the Walton Hall of Ancient Egypt, the Benedum Hall of Geology and the Powdermill Nature Reserve, established by the museum in 1956 to serve as a field station for long-term studies of natural populations. The museum also recently discovered the Fruitafossor windscheffeli. For symbolic or mythic uses of the human skull, see Skull (symbolism). ... Binomial name Tyrannosaurus rex Osborn, 1905 For the rock group Tyrannosaurus Rex, see T. Rex (band). ... Orders Saurischia    Sauropodomorpha    Theropoda Ornithischia Dinosaurs are reptiles that dominated the terrestrial ecosystem for most of their 165-million year existence. ... 1956 is a leap year starting on Sunday. ...


Carnegie Science Center

Opened in 1991, but with a history that dates to October 24, 1939, the Carnegie Science Center is the most visited museum in Pittsburgh. Among it's attractions are the Buhl Planetarium, the Rangos Omnimax Theater, the Miniature Railroad & Village®, and the USS Requin, a World War II submarine. 1991 is a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... October 24 is the 297th day of the year (298th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 68 days remaining. ... 1939 was a common year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ... USS Requin (SS-481), a Tench-class submarine, was the only ship of the United States Navy to be named for the requin, a sand shark. ... Mushroom cloud from the nuclear explosion over Nagasaki rising 18 km into the air. ... USS Los Angeles A submarine is a specialized watercraft that can operate underwater. ...


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Carnegie Science Center's director leaving (749 words)
Seddon Bennington, director of the Carnegie Science Center since 1994, will leave that position in late December to become director of the national museum in his native New Zealand.
The science center is expected to attract 705,000 visitors this year, about 165,000 more than in 1994, when Bennington arrived.
When Bennington arrived here from Australia, he said, the science center "was a fledgling, had not become integrated into the community and had not developed a reputation for anything particular.
The Carnegie Science Center (1856 words)
The Buhl Planetarium and Institute of Popular Science that opened 12 years after the benefactor's death was one of the largest projects undertaken by the foundation, and for generations of Pittsburghers it became a gateway to scientific knowledge and to careers in scientific pursuits.
This is where The Carnegie's leadership, embarking upon its own capital campaign to upgrade the operations of its famous museum complex, showed an interest in merging resources with Buhl Science Center.
By late 1991 The Carnegie's capital campaign--The Second Century Fund--will have reached its original goal of $125.5 million, of which $40 million was funding specifically designated from government and private sources for the science center.
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