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The park began when the industrialist Henry Clay Frick, upon his death in 1919, bequeathed 151 acres (61 ha) south of Clayton, his Point Breeze mansion (which is now part of the Frick Art & Historical Center). He also arranged for a $2 million trust fund ($35.1 million today) for long-term maintenance for the park, which opened on June 25, 1927.
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 ...
The complex, located on 5.5 acres (22,000 m 2) [1] of lawn and gardens in the city's Point Breeze neighborhood, includes Clayton, the restored Frick mansion; The Frick Art Museum; The Car and Carriage Museum; the Greenhouse; the Frick children's playhouse; and The Café. The site welcomes over 100,000 visitors a year. Admission is free.
The Heinz History Center seen from the Strip District in Pittsburgh in July 2007. In 1879, a club called Old Residents of Pittsburgh and Western Pennsylvania was founded. In 1884, leaders changed the organization's name to the Historical Society of Western Pennsylvania (HSWP); it has been operating continuously since then and is the Pittsburgh region's oldest cultural organization.
Pittsburgh Children's Museum (Allegheny [Old] Post Office) 1897 William Martin Aiken: 10 Children's Way (Allegheny Center) Central North Side 1971 Pittsburgh Engineer's Building (Union Trust Company) 1898 D. H. Burnham & Company: 337 Fourth Avenue Downtown 1974 Pittsburgh Gifted Center (McKelvy School) 1911
This is a list of jam band music festivals. This list may have some overlap with list of historic rock festivals and list of reggae festivals . Jam bands are musical groups who relate to a unique fan culture that began in the 1960s with Grateful Dead (see deadheads ), and continued with The Allman Brothers Band , which had lengthy jams at concerts.
George Westinghouse Museum, Wilmerding, closed in 2007, collection now part of the Heinz History Center; Hall of Presidents Exhibit, Gettysburg, closed in 2016, contents auctioned [11] [12] Hazel Kibler Memorial Museum, Girard, operated by the West County Historical Association [13] Heritage Center Museum, Lancaster, closed in 2011 [14]
The culture of Pittsburgh stems from the city's long history as a center for cultural philanthropy, as well as its rich ethnic traditions.In the 19th and 20th centuries, wealthy businessmen such as Andrew Carnegie, Henry J. Heinz, Henry Clay Frick, and nonprofit organizations such as the Carnegie Foundation donated millions of dollars to create educational and cultural institutions.