History of Andrew Carnegie and Carnegie Libraries

Organizations Which Have Benefited
from Andrew Carnegie Philanthropy

Official Web Sites for:

Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh/ Carnegie Institute

Carnegie Musuem of Natural History

Carnegie Musuem of Art

Andy Warhol (Art) Museum

Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh

Carnegie Institute/Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh -

Carnegie Museum of Natural History

* "Boy nicknames dino at Carnegie Museum."
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette 2008 April 5.

* 2007 Sept. 20 - Pittsburgh City Paper:
Old is the new new at the Carnegie's Hall of Architecture turns 100.
BY CHARLES ROSENBLUM

* 2007 Aug. 27 - Pittsburgh Post-Gazette:
Editorial
Dino-fright: The Carnegie's new prices will stun some families

* 2007 Aug. 25 - Pittsburgh Post-Gazette:
Dino soar: Carnegie museum also raising prices for field trips, groups
By Timothy McNulty

* 2007 Aug. 22 - Pittsburgh Post-Gazette:
Museum admission to be dinosaur sized
Carnegie to hike prices when expanded exhibit opens Nov. 21
By Timothy McNulty

* 2007 Aug. 22 - Pittsburgh Tribune-Review:
Admission prices will leap when dino hall opens
By Tony LaRussa

* 2007 June 5 - Pittsburgh Tribune-Review:
Carnegie exhibit features 'colossal' dino-skeletons
By Allison M. Heinrichs
Carnegie Museum prepares for reopening of enlarged dinosaur skeleton exhibit.

* 2006 Aug. 8 - Pittsburgh Tribune-Review:
Dinosaur restore By Jennifer Bails
Work continues on restoration of historic dinosaur skeletons, to be ready for enlarged Dinosaur Hall of The Carnegie Museum of Natural History for next year's centennial of dinosaur exhibit specifically started by Andrew Carnegie.

From the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Pittsburgh - 2002 September 17:
Museum to celebrate important dates of its most famous resident By Bob Batz Jr.
Centennial of Discovery of Carnegie Museum's "type specimen" dinosaur,
Tyrannosaurus Rex,
and 60th anniversary of display at Carnegie Museum.

Discovery of the first major dinosaur skeleton, 1899 July: Diplodocus Carnegii("Dippy")
More information on Dippy and other dinosaurs, from The Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh

From the Pittsburgh City Paper, Pittsburgh - 2002 February 6:
"You Had to Ask:
Regarding the dinosaur outside the Carnegie Museum:
Is it made to scale, or smaller than the actual dinosaur was?"
Regarding Andrew Carnegie's interest in dinosaur skeletons and
the acquisition of Carnegie Institute's first dinosaur skeleton:
Diplodocus Carnegii("Dippy").
By Chris Potter

From the Pittsburgh City Paper, Pittsburgh - 2005 June 2:
Weekly Column - "You Had to Ask !"
How were those four statues outside the Carnegie museum chosen?
Question submitted by: Frank Wadsworth, Upper St. Clair
Writer: CHRIS POTTER

* 2006 June 14 - Pittsburgh City Paper:
You Had to Ask

Also see Carnegie Institute Photo Album

Carnegie Museum of Art

From the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Pittsburgh - 2004 October 8:
Carnegie International timeline of art exhibitions since 1896
Compiled in part by Donald Miller

Carnegie Science Center

Andy Warhol Museum

Original Science Center Building:
The Buhl Planetarium and Institute of Popular Science

History of Carnegie-Mellon University(CMU): November 15, 1900 -

Located in the Oakland Civic Center section of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Previously known as Carnegie Technical Schools(1900-1912)
and Carnegie Institute of Technology/Carnegie Tech(1912-1967):

CMU Centennial

CMU Capsule History: "Yesterday and Today"

CMU Detailed History

CMU Photograph

Carnegie Hero Fund Commission

Carnegie Endowment for International Peace: Link 1 *** Link 2

Carnegie Hall in New York City

Carnegie Observatories operated by the Carnegie Institution of Washington

Mount Wilson Observatory,
constructed by the Carnegie Observatories in 1918, now operated by the Mount Wilson Institute

11-inch Brashear Refractor Telescope,
commissoned for the Carnegie Technical Schools[now Carnegie Mellon University] in 1908,
now operated by the Amateur Astronomers' Association of Pittsburgh

Other "Carnegie" organizations