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Bayernhof Music Museum. Bayernhof Music Museum features a major collection of automated musical instruments from the 19th and 20th centuries. [1] Located six miles (10 km) northeast of downtown Pittsburgh in the suburb of O'Hara Township, Pennsylvania, it is housed in a German-style mansion sited on an 18-acre (73,000 m 2) dramatic overlook some 540 feet (160 m) above the Allegheny River Valley.
The left wing of the building houses the Stephen Foster Memorial Museum and the Center for American Music which contains the University of Pittsburgh's Stephen Foster Collection and archive that includes manuscripts, copies of over 200 of his musical compositions, examples of recordings, songsters, broadside, programs, books, various ...
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 ...
Bicycle Heaven: Pittsburgh: Allegheny: Pittsburgh Metro Area: Transportation: A free museum housing 30,000 vintage and movie bicycles including the one used in Pee-wee's Big Adventure. Big Mac Museum Restaurant: North Huntingdon: Westmoreland: Pittsburgh Metro Area: Food: Tribute to the Big Mac and its creator [1] Bill's Old Bike Barn ...
Pittsburgh Children's Museum (Allegheny [Old] Post Office) 1897 William Martin Aiken: 10 Children's Way (Allegheny Center) Central North Side 1971 Pittsburgh Engineer's Building (Union Trust Company) 1898 D. H. Burnham & Company: 337 Fourth Avenue Downtown 1974 Pittsburgh Gifted Center (McKelvy School) 1911
The August Wilson African American Cultural Center building is on Liberty Avenue in Downtown Pittsburgh's Cultural District. It includes galleries, classrooms, a 500-seat theater, a gift shop, a cafe, and many multi-purpose spaces for visual and performing art. The museum opened in 2009.
The Statue of Liberty Museum. The Statue of Liberty Museum is located on Liberty Island in New York City.The museum opened on May 16, 2019, [1] and is focused on the creation, meaning, and history of the Statue of Liberty (formally Liberty Enlightening the World), a large statue by Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi which the people of France gave to the people of the United States in 1886.
Liberty Fanfare is a composition for orchestra by John Williams. Written in 1986, the piece was commissioned to celebrate the Centennial of the Statue of Liberty on July 4, that year. [1] However, it was actually premiered a month beforehand, on June 4, when Williams conducted the Boston Pops. The entire piece is approximately five minutes in ...