Carnegie Museum of Natural History
Natural History · Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
The museum Andrew Carnegie founded in 1896 and then used his fortune to stock, most famously by paying for the expedition that dug up a near-complete sauropod in Wyoming in 1899 and had it named Diplodocus carnegii after him. That animal is the type specimen of its species, and Carnegie had plaster casts of it sent to crowned heads across Europe, which is why a Pittsburgh dinosaur stands in museums in London, Paris, Berlin and Buenos Aires. The dinosaur halls were rebuilt in 2007 to show the animals in reconstructed habitat with real fossil bone rather than casts, and they hold one of the largest permanent Mesozoic displays anywhere.
4400 Forbes Avenue, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 15213, United States
Open most days, generally 10 AM to 5 PM with a later opening on some evenings, and closed at least one weekday — verify before travelling. One ticket admits to both the Carnegie Museum of Natural History and the Carnegie Museum of Art in the same building. Dippy, on Forbes Avenue outside, is free at all times.
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