Carnegie Museum of Art

Address:4400 Forbes Ave.
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Tel: (412) 622-3131

Visit the first true museum of modern art in the United States with a contemporary and diverse collection that's second to none.

The Carnegie Art Museum was the gift of 19th-century tycoon Andrew Carnegie, who built the huge complex of buildings comprising the Carnegie Museums and Library on Forbes Avenue in Pittsburgh. Today, the museum boasts incredible artistic treasures, such as the marble Hall of Sculpture, a replica of the interior of the Parthenon and the Hall of Architecture, which contains the largest collection of plaster casts of architectural masterpieces in the United States. The permanent collection has a little of everything, from classic paintings to the archive of African-American photographer Charles "Teenie" Harris, which consists of 80,000 photographic negatives spanning from the 1930s to the 1970s. Other popular highlights include works by Degas, Van Gogh and Cassatt.

The Carnegie Museum of Art is a goldmine for kid visitors too, offering free, weekend drop-in art-making programs, gallery play dates for preschool-aged children, art classes and summer camps for kids of all ages. Even dining here is family friendly, both at the Art Café or the Fossil Fuels Café.

To get here, take bus routes 61A, B, and C and 67A, C, E, F, and J, which stop directly in front of the museum on Forbes Avenue. Routes 71B, C, and D stop one block north of the museum at the intersection of Fifth Avenue and South Craig Street. Don't miss the opportunity to take in the best in contemporary art at the famed Carnegie Museum of Art.

The Carnegie Museum of Art offers a distinguished collection of contemporary art that includes film and video works. Other collections of note include works of American art from the late nineteenth century, French Impressionist and Post-Impressionist paintings, and European and American decorative arts from the late seventeenth century to the present.