Celebrate the 75th anniversary of the National Science Foundation with free admission to the Children’s Museum!
NSF investments over the years have shaped exhibits, research and programming at Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh and other learning organizations all across the country. Join us for a free campus-wide celebration of STEM learning with hands-on activities in robotics, computing, design, aviation, mechanics and SO much more!
Explore the outdoor partner fair in Buhl Community Park from 1:00 – 4:00 pm. Participating organizations include:
- Moonshot Museum
- Carnegie Science Center
- Carnegie Museum of Natural History
- Center for Aviation Technology and Training at Hosanna House
- BotsIQ
- Citizen Science Lab
- CMU Entertainment Technology Center
- Assemble
- Protohaven
- The Crafty Alpaca
- and more!
This event is supported by the U.S. National Science Foundation.
This event is part of Remake Learning Days Southwestern PA 2025, #RemakeLearningDaysSWPA. Learn more at https://remakelearningdays.org/.
In honor of Earth Month, join us for a campus-wide recycling festival!
Aluminum Can Drive
Help us get more aluminum recycled in our community by donating empty aluminum cans to our drive. All donors receive one free admission per family of four, good for admission on April 5, 2025.
Aluminum cans are 100% recyclable and when recycled, the metal in an aluminum can will be back on store shelves in just 60 days.
AT THE CHILDREN’S MUSEUM
10:00 am – Noon
- Performance and game show hosted by O’Ryan the O’Mazing
- Learn about sustainability from these local environmental organizations:
- Pittsburgh Parks Conservancy
- PGH20
- Rewind Reuse
- PittMoss
- Pennsylvania Resources Council
- City of Pittsburgh Bureau of Environmental Services
Noon – 4:00 pm
- Recycled scavenger hunt
- Papermaking with Katy Dement
- Transforming plastic with Reimagined Recycling
- Glass mosaic-making with Sarah Cohen
AT MUSEUMLAB
1:00 – 4:00 pm
- Recycled dioramas with Pittsburgh Center for Creative Reuse
- Art making with Tough Artist Kelly Jimenez of La Vispera
- Clothing upcycling with The Andy Warhol Museum
- Tote bag upcycling with Rona Chang of Otto Finn
- Eco-Artisans & Maker Market featuring local sustainable vendors, including:
- China Jones Art
- Jess Peña Heberle
- Cathy Olivar Brand
- Homegrown 1910
- Henna by Soni
- True North Creations
- Reading Room Pittsburg
- Emily Krill Studio
- Charmed by Nature
- Art House Mosaic
- Tabulous
- SusanMcclellanArt
- Les Is More 894
- Colorcopia Studio
All activities are included with museum admission.
This event is generously supported by the Ball Foundation and PPG Foundation.
Join us for our second annual Black History Month Art Crawl!
Contemporary artists stationed throughout the Museum’s first floor will create live portraits and artworks honoring Pittsburgh’s Black heroes, both past and present.
This year’s featured subjects include:
- Pittsburgh’s Freedom Corner
- Dr. Vernell Lillie, Founder of Kuntu Repertory Theater
- Robert Lee Vann, publisher and editor of the Pittsburgh Courier
- Baseball player Josh Gibson of the Homestead Grays and Pittsburgh Crawfords
- Performer and civil rights activist Lena Horne
- Multimedia professional Emmai Alaquiva
- Hill Dance Academy Theater and founder Dr. Ayisha Morgan-Lee
- Dr. Harry Clark, founder of Pittsburgh CAPA
- Wilkinsburg Mayor Dontae Comans
This year’s featured artists include:
- Ricky Davii
- Tyler Belizaire
- Ashante Josey
- Juliandra Jones
- Morgan Overton
- Trenita Finney
- Ajia Zanaya
- Amani Davis
- Darrin Milliner
- Jewel Strothers
Special thanks to our generous sponsor:
Join us for these activities inspired by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s message of hope and kindness:
- Make art with guest artist/muralist Kayla Thomas
- Write your own poems and speeches based on Dr. King’s famous “I Have a Dream” speech with poet M. Smalls
- Craft your own signs and instruments in the MAKESHOP, then join a musical march through the Museum with musician Lee Robinson
- Special storytime exploring Dr. King’s life and legacy
- MuseumLab is open noon – 5:00 pm
This event is made possible with support from Highmark Wholecare.
Join us at MuseumLab to celebrate the Year of the Wood Snake with crafts, book readings, and live performances!
Pittsburgh members of OCA and Tzu-Chi will share Chinese dance and yo-yo performances.
You can also enjoy a special presentation by the Steel Dragon Lion Dance Team.
Join artist Isaac Bower in MuseumLab for a pop-up exploration of the artist’s interactive sculpture system, Cojiform.
Cojiform invites people of all ages and abilities to connect with their inner sculptor. Explore balance, form, pattern, positive and negative space, light and shadow. Cultivate persistence, focus, and creative delight!
Bower’s sculpture system draws connection to the opposites SOFT and HARD. While the pieces have a soft look and feel, they are made of a hard material that creates stability for building.
This program is a part of a monthly series highlighting pairs of opposites featured in the exhibit Opposites Abstract: A Mo Willems Exhibit, now open in Museum Lab.
Join artist Isaac Bower in MuseumLab for a pop-up exploration of the artist’s interactive sculpture system, Cojiform.
Cojiform invites people of all ages and abilities to connect with their inner sculptor. Explore balance, form, pattern, positive and negative space, light and shadow. Cultivate persistence, focus, and creative delight!
Bower’s sculpture system draws connection to the opposites SOFT and HARD. While the pieces have a soft look and feel, they are made of a hard material that creates stability for building.
This program is a part of a monthly series highlighting pairs of opposites featured in the exhibit Opposites Abstract: A Mo Willems Exhibit, now open in Museum Lab.
Join artist Isaac Bower in MuseumLab for a pop-up exploration of the artist’s interactive sculpture system, Cojiform.
Cojiform invites people of all ages and abilities to connect with their inner sculptor. Explore balance, form, pattern, positive and negative space, light and shadow. Cultivate persistence, focus, and creative delight!
Bower’s sculpture system draws connection to the opposites SOFT and HARD. While the pieces have a soft look and feel, they are made of a hard material that creates stability for building.
This program is a part of a monthly series highlighting pairs of opposites featured in the exhibit Opposites Abstract: A Mo Willems Exhibit, now open in Museum Lab.
Join artist Isaac Bower in MuseumLab for a pop-up exploration of the artist’s interactive sculpture system, Cojiform.
Cojiform invites people of all ages and abilities to connect with their inner sculptor. Explore balance, form, pattern, positive and negative space, light and shadow. Cultivate persistence, focus, and creative delight!
Bower’s sculpture system draws connection to the opposites SOFT and HARD. While the pieces have a soft look and feel, they are made of a hard material that creates stability for building.
This program is a part of a monthly series highlighting pairs of opposites featured in the exhibit Opposites Abstract: A Mo Willems Exhibit, now open in Museum Lab.
Have your very own caricature portrait drawn by artist Sam Thong. He will sketch an expressive and unique picture of you that shares something special about your personality and what you like to do. In the Cafe from 1-5pm
For more information about the artist, visit his website. http://samthong.com/
Have your very own caricature portrait drawn by artist Sam Thong. He will sketch an expressive and unique picture of you that shares something special about your personality and what you like to do. In the Cafe from 1-5pm
For more information about the artist, visit his website. http://samthong.com/
