It’s party time in Pittsburg!
In November, when the Carnegie Museum of Natural History in Pittsburgh reopens its worldfamous dinosaur exhibit, it will be quite a change for visitors.
“It will really be an exciting, more active experience than in the old hall,” said Kitty Julian, director of marketing for the museum.
The same can be said for Pittsburgh. This once dark industrial city — where factory smoke once turned white shirts and buildings black — has metamorphosed over the past few decades into an attractive, clean city with distinctive gleaming skyscrapers and a wealth of cultural attractions.
In 1758, the British captured Fort Duquesne in western Pennsylvania at the point
where the Allegheny and Monogahela rivers come together to form the Ohio River and renamed it after British Prime Minister William Pitt. Pittsburgh is gearing up next year to mark the 250th anniversary of its naming.
A $4.5 million renovation to Point State Park, which was built in 1958 as a bicentennial project, is expected to be ready for the anniversary. The work will include improvements to sidewalks, and electric and water lines; new outdoor
festival grounds; and upgrades to the displays at the Fort Pitt Museum at the park.
Also marking an anniversary is the Heinz Architectural Center at the Carnegie Museum of Art, where a centennial exhibition will kick off Sept. 22 and run through Jan. 13, 2008. With more than 150 architectural casts, the grand Hall of
Architecture, which opened in April 1907, is the Western Hemisphere’s largest collection of architectural casts and one of the three largest such collections in
the world.
In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, before the advent of television
and easy travel, the hall provided visitors with accurate replicas of the world’s famous buildings. “It’s a dramatic room with history and significance,” said Tey
Stiteler, communications manager for the museum.
The 55th Carnegie International exhibit of contemporary art will also coincide with the anniversary, running from May 3, 2008, through Jan. 11, 2009.
Approximately 40 artists in all media, including painting, sculpture, photography, works on paper, and film and video, will participate in the exhibit.
The exhibit has been held at varying intervals since 1896. The last one ended in the spring of 2005. “We have the second-oldest international art exhibition in the world,” said Stiteler. “We invite a curator to look at the state of art in the world today and to organize this exhibition. It gives us a sense of what is going on in the international art world.”
Talented artisans will demonstrate their skills in glasswork at the Pittsburgh
Glass Center, one of the central points of a yearlong celebration of the
city’s glass heritage.
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