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The Carnegie Science Center. / 40.445614; -80.018181. The Carnegie Science Center, soon to be The Daniel G. and Carole L. Kamin Science Center, [2] is one of the four Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. It is located in the Chateau [3] neighborhood. It is located across the street from Acrisure Stadium .
Center for PostNatural History. / 40.465357; -79.944669. The Center for PostNatural History is a storefront museum in Pittsburgh's Garfield neighborhood. In contrast to typical natural history museums, it is focused on the collection and exposition of organisms that have been intentionally and heritably altered by humans by means including ...
September 19, 1999 [ 2] The Meadowcroft Rockshelter is an archaeological site which is located near Avella in Jefferson Township, Pennsylvania. [ 4] The site is a rock shelter in a bluff overlooking Cross Creek (a tributary of the Ohio River ), and contains evidence that the area may have been continually inhabited for more than 19,000 years.
Near the end of the 19th century, in 1895, Andrew Carnegie endowed Pittsburgh's Carnegie Museum. [ 25 ] One of the first major fossil finds of the 20th century in Pennsylvania was the 1902 discovery of dinosaur tracks at a fisher's Quarry near Graterford in Montgomery County . [ 23 ]
The Dark Ages is a term for the Early Middle Ages ( c. 5th –10th centuries), or occasionally the entire Middle Ages ( c. 5th –15th centuries), in Western Europe after the fall of the Western Roman Empire, which characterises it as marked by economic, intellectual, and cultural decline. The concept of a "Dark Age" as a historiographical ...
The Allegheny Observatory is an American astronomical research institution, a part of the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Pittsburgh.The facility is listed on the National Register of Historic Places (ref. # 79002157, added June 22, 1979) [3] and is designated as a Pennsylvania state [4] and Pittsburgh History and Landmarks Foundation [5] historic landmark.
Dippy is a composite Diplodocus skeleton in Pittsburgh 's Carnegie Museum of Natural History, and the holotype of the species Diplodocus carnegii. It is considered the most famous single dinosaur skeleton in the world, due to the numerous plaster casts donated by Andrew Carnegie to several major museums around the world at the beginning of the ...
This list of museums in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania encompasses museums defined for this context as institutions (including nonprofit organizations, government entities, and private businesses) that collect and care for objects of cultural, artistic, scientific, or historical interest and make their collections or related exhibits available for public viewing.