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The Dinosaur that Changed the World
Dippy continues to fascinate the public 125 years after it arrived at Carnegie Museum of Natural History.
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Everybody’s welcome on this dance floor
Now more than ever, The Andy Warhol Museum’s annual LGBTQ+ Youth Prom provides a space of connection and community.
Story by Nichole Faina; Photos by Stephanie Strasburg
A Living Archive
A new gallery reinstallation at Carnegie Museum of Art will give visitors unprecedented access to the Charles ‘Teenie’ Harris Archive.
By B. Denise Hawkins
A Feminine Force
Women and femmes, integral in the making of Andy Warhol, take center stage.
By Cristina Rouvalis
A Knotty Conversation
Botanists at Carnegie Museum of Natural History are researching new ways to discuss invasive plants.
By Chris Fleisher
The STEM of Animation
The new Pixar exhibition at Carnegie Science Center offers insights into how the animation studio created some of its most iconic films.
By Barbara Klein
A Martian Garden Comes Alive
Edible plants grown as part of the Science Center’s Mars exhibition inspire ideas for sustainably producing healthy food in challenging environments.
By Sally Quinn
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“We’re living the climate change right now.”
Rural communities in western Pennsylvania are suffering the effects of increasingly extreme weather and other consequences of a warming world. Carnegie Museum of Natural History hopes to help connect those seeking solutions.
By Jason Bittel
A Maverick with a Camera A new exhibition puts a spotlight on photographer Gordon Parks’ little-known images—at once gritty and beautiful—of industrial life in 1940s Pittsburgh.
By Jennifer Davis
Being Social A lifeline for museums during the COVID lockdown, social media is becoming even more essential to reaching new audiences now.
By Barbara Klein
Charles "Teenie" Harris was one of Pittsburgh's most prolific chroniclers of the city's communities and Black life in midcentury America. Now, visitors to Carnegie Museum fo Art have unprecedented access to his work. A new museum gallery dedicated to Harris includes never-before-seen color photographs and moving images, as well as black-and-white photographs, film negatives, and recorded oral histories.
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Hope Gillespie There’s a movie poster of Harrison Ford’s iconic character Indiana Jones fixed to Hope Gillespie’s office wall at Carnegie Science Center. It is there for professional inspiration as much as workplace decor. “I cannot overstate the influence Indiana Jones has had on my life,” says Gillespie, who is the museum experiences officer at the Science Center. The film franchise piqued her interest in archaeology—she holds a bachelor’s degree in archaeology from The George Washington University and a master’s degree in the discipline from University College London. But she also just loves the character’s catchphrase about artifacts—“It belongs in a museum”—that informs her work to this day. Since joining the Science Center in 2021, Gillespie has put her archaeology background to use by spending months researching upcoming exhibitions. Her work ranges from studying delicate waterlogged objects in TITANIC: The Artifact Exhibition, the blockbuster exhibition that closed in April, to researching the process of animation for The Science Behind Pixar, which opened May 25. Gillespie trains staff and produces supplementary materials to enhance exhibitions. She also spends a lot of time answering visitors’ questions, which is the part of her job she loves most. “I love teaching,” Gillespie says. “I didn’t think that informal education was my superpower until I started to do it.”
Conservators play a critical role in not only the preservation of art but also its creation. They are partners with artists to realize their vision, even as they are stewards of it and the museum where it will be exhibited.