Sunday, August 17, 2008

A Long Weekend - The Carnegie Museums

Pittsburgh has several musuems that were established with money from Andrew Carnegie, who also funded a series of public libraries across the country (including one in my hometown). We visited two of these museums, the Carnegie Art Museum and the Carnegie Natural History Museum. Both had wonderful collections. Here is a sample of a stained glass window:

(More pictures)

And some pictures at the natural history museum:

The natural history museum also had an interesting collection of rocks and minerals, like this one:

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