Carnegie Museum

1940/1960

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Carnegie Museum
  • Title
  • Carnegie Museum
  • Identifier
  • MSP285.B003.F10.I02
  • Source Identifier
  • MSP285.B003.F10.I02
  • Description
  • The entrance to the Carnegie Institute Building, located at 4400 Forbes Avenue in Pittsburgh’s Oakland neighborhood, was designed by Longfellow, Alden & Harlow in 1895. The structure stretches 600 feet long on its Schenley Plaza facade and almost 800 feet long on its Forbes Avenue side. This eight-acre building is the grandest monument of Beaux Arts planning in Pittsburgh and appeared in the Encyclopedia Britannica of 1911 as the exemplar of the modern museum. Inside, the building contains six thousand tons of European marble, some from the very quarry that supplied Pentelic marble for the Parthenon in Athens. Some 10,000 exhibits of natural history are on display, with twenty times that number kept in reserve for scientific study. Today, the museums of art and natural history, the library and its eighteen branches, the music hall, and the lecture hall support more activities than any other American cultural institution, except the Smithsonian.
  • Genre
  • photographs
  • Subject
  • Carnegie Institute.
    Oakland (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
  • Source
  • Allegheny Conference on Community Development Photographs, 1892-1981, MSP 285, Library and Archives Division, Senator John Heinz History Center
  • Contributor
  • Detre Library & Archives, Heinz History Center
  • Collection
  • Allegheny Conference on Community Development Photographs
  • Rights Information
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