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This list of museums in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania encompasses museums defined for this context as institutions (including nonprofit organizations, government entities, and private businesses) that collect and care for objects of cultural, artistic, scientific, or historical interest and make their collections or related exhibits available for public viewing.
Image of the Grantham Museum. Grantham Museum is located at St Peter's Hill, Grantham, Lincolnshire, England, in the building provided for it in 1926.. The building also previously housed the public library, and was partly funded by the Carnegie UK Trust which was continuing Andrew Carnegie's project of building libraries across the United Kingdom.
Heritage Center Museum, Lancaster, closed in 2011 [14] JEM Classic Car Museum, Andreas, collection sold in 2003 [15] Jewish Museum of Eastern Pennsylvania, Pottsville, closed in 2014 [16] Kready's Country Store Museum, Lititz [17] [18] Lancaster County Quilts and Textile Museum, closed in 2011 [19]
Healing Body, Mind, and Spirit: The History of the St. Francis Medical Center, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Carnegie Mellon U. Press, 1995. 246 pp. Couvares, Francis G. (1984). The Remaking of Pittsburgh: Class and Culture in an Industrializing City 1877–1919. State University of New York Press. Cowan, Aaron.
Grantham Museum: Grantham: South Kesteven: Local: Local history, culture, Sir Isaac Newton, Margaret Thatcher and the World War II raid Dambusters: Grimsby Fishing Heritage Centre: Grimsby: North East Lincolnshire: Maritime: Area 1950s fishing industry, also art exhibits Grimsby Town Hall Time Trap Museum: Grimsby: North East Lincolnshire: Prison
The History Center includes the Library & Archives, which preserves hundreds of thousands of books, manuscripts, photographs, maps, atlases, newspapers, films and recordings documenting over 250 years of life in the region; and the Western Pennsylvania Sports Museum, a museum-within-a-museum documenting Pittsburgh's extensive sports legacy.
The Pittsburgh History and Landmarks Foundation (PHLF) Historic Landmark plaque program was begun in 1968 in order to identify architecturally significant structures and significant pieces of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States's local heritage throughout Allegheny County. Nominations are reviewed by the private non-profit foundation's ...
A proposal to erect the statue in Grantham was made in 2018 by the Grantham Community Heritage Association (GCHA), which runs the Grantham Museum, and approval was given in February 2019 by South Kesteven District Council. Funding was provided through a local appeal and contributions from a charity, the Public Memorials Appeal. [9] [10] [11]