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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.

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.

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.