Opening hours, prices and tickets for places worth your time.
The Andy Warhol Museum opened in 1994 on Pittsburgh's North Shore, in the city where Warhol was born, as one of the Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh. Seven floors of a former industrial warehouse hold his paintings, films, photographs and the Time Capsules, and the ground-floor Factory studio offers silkscreen printing.
The Heinz History Center is a history museum in Pittsburgh's Strip District, opened in 1996 in a restored ice warehouse of 1898 and affiliated with the Smithsonian Institution. Its exhibitions cover Western Pennsylvania from the frontier to the steel industry, with sets from Mister Rogers' Neighborhood and the Franco Harris Sports Museum inside.
Point State Park covers the tip of downtown Pittsburgh where the Allegheny and Monongahela rivers meet to form the Ohio. It lies on the site of Fort Duquesne and Fort Pitt, whose Block House of 1764 and the Fort Pitt Museum stand in the park, and its fountain at the point throws water up to about 45 metres high.
The Monongahela Incline is a cable funicular opened in 1870, the oldest in the United States still in continuous use. Run by Pittsburgh Regional Transit as part of the public transport network, it climbs from West Carson Street near Station Square to Grandview Avenue on Mount Washington, with views over downtown.
The National Aviary is an indoor bird zoo in West Park on Pittsburgh's North Side, opened in 1952 as the city's aviary-conservatory and given its national title by Congress in 1993. Visitors walk through planted habitats among several hundred birds of about 150 species, from penguins to a harpy eagle.
The Duquesne Incline is a cable funicular opened in 1877 that climbs the slope of Mount Washington opposite downtown Pittsburgh. Its two restored wooden cars of the 1870s still run, and the upper station has a small museum and an observation deck looking over the Point where the three rivers meet.
The Kamin Science Center, called the Carnegie Science Center until 2024, is a science museum of the Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh, opened in 1991 on the North Shore beside the Ohio River. It has hands-on exhibitions, the Buhl Planetarium, a large model railroad and the Second World War submarine USS Requin moored outside.
The Carnegie Museum of Natural History was founded by Andrew Carnegie in 1896 and shares the Carnegie Institute building in Oakland with the art museum. Its Dinosaurs in Their Time hall shows the Diplodocus carnegii and the type specimen of Tyrannosaurus rex, and other halls cover minerals and gems, ancient Egypt and North American wildlife.
The Carnegie Museum of Art was founded by Andrew Carnegie in 1895 and has organised the Carnegie International exhibition of contemporary art since 1896. Its collection runs from European old masters and French Impressionists to American and contemporary art, and the Hall of Architecture holds plaster casts of historic buildings.
Phipps Conservatory and Botanical Gardens is a Victorian glasshouse in Schenley Park, opened in 1893 as a gift to the city from the industrialist Henry Phipps. More than a dozen glass rooms hold palms, orchids, desert plants and seasonal flower shows, with outdoor gardens and the Center for Sustainable Landscapes beside them.
The Pittsburgh Zoo & Aquarium lies in Highland Park in the east of the city and opened in 1898. Its grounds are laid out as habitats such as an African savanna and an Asian forest, and the PPG Aquarium, opened in 2000, shows sharks, penguins and river and ocean life.
The Frick Pittsburgh is a museum complex in Point Breeze around Clayton, the house of the industrialist Henry Clay Frick, shown on guided tours. Beside it stand the Frick Art Museum, opened by his daughter Helen Clay Frick in 1970 for European paintings and decorative arts, the Car and Carriage Museum, a greenhouse and gardens.
Kennywood is an amusement park in West Mifflin, about 13 km south-east of downtown Pittsburgh above the Monongahela River, opened in 1898 as a trolley park. It keeps wooden roller coasters such as the Jack Rabbit of 1920 and the Thunderbolt alongside newer rides, and is a National Historic Landmark.
The Pittsburgh Botanic Garden lies in the hills near Oakdale, about 15 km west of downtown Pittsburgh, on land once mined for coal and since restored. Trails lead through woodlands, meadows and themed gardens, among them an Asian woodland with a lotus pond, and the garden hosts seasonal art exhibitions.
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