Explore Pittsburgh

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 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 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 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.