Join us for a music filled afternoon in MuseumLab with the talented young students of the Greater Pittsburgh Suzuki Institute. The day will feature cello, flute, guitar, piano, viola and violin students performing to raise funds for scholarships for the 2025 season. Included with Museum admission.
Join us for the opening day of this immersive installation that is a tribute to the marvel of watching fireflies in nature.
Look up to see a field of 200 ‘firefly’ jars, each containing a light that will blink at random with a golden glow. When the light from one jar recognizes another glowing nearby, gradually the blinking between them synchronizes and their lights turn blue. Over time, the patterns of the blinking colors shift and flow from one end of the room to the other. Watch as the blue lights independently change back to gold creating new patterns, and then synchronize to blue again.
A custom soundscape entitled Nocturne adds the sounds of summer insects to the installation, enhancing the feeling of the flow and flicker of light and amplifying the Rhythm of Fireflies. You can also find information about fireflies, their behaviors, habitats and ways you can help them flourish.
The exhibit and soundscape are created by artist Sally Weber and optical innovator Craig Newswanger of Resonance Studio.
In Partnership with Lullaby Project Pittsburgh
Join the musicians of Lullaby Project Pittsburgh to write a song in real time with other parents! As a group, you’ll make decisions about the style and lyrics of the song, and by the end we’ll have a full song (recording and lyrics) that you can take home to sing with your child.
This event will take place at MuseumLab, just next door to Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh. No songwriting experience is required.
Designed for families with children ages 2-4, children are encouraged to participate!
Sessions are free but limited to 6 families. To reserve your space, please call Kayla at 412-322-5058, ext. 218 or complete the online form linked here.
The May 18 Session of Build Your Own Lullaby is cancelled, but you can sign up for our May 25 Session here!
In Partnership with Lullaby Project Pittsburgh
Join the musicians of Lullaby Project Pittsburgh to write a song in real time with other parents! As a group, you’ll make decisions about the style and lyrics of the song, and by the end we’ll have a full song (recording and lyrics) that you can take home to sing with your child.
This event will take place at MuseumLab, just next door to Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh. No songwriting experience is required.
Designed for families with children ages 2-4, children are encouraged to participate!
In Partnership with Lullaby Project Pittsburgh
Join the musicians of Lullaby Project Pittsburgh to write a song in real time with other parents! As a group, you’ll make decisions about the style and lyrics of the song, and by the end we’ll have a full song (recording and lyrics) that you can take home to sing with your child.
This event will take place at MuseumLab, just next door to Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh. No songwriting experience is required.
Designed for families with children ages 2-4, children are encouraged to participate!
Sessions are free but limited to 6 families. To reserve your space, please call Kayla at 412-322-5058, ext. 218 or complete the online form linked here.
Join us for a music filled afternoon in MuseumLab with the talented young students of the Greater Pittsburgh Suzuki Institute. The day will feature cello, flute, guitar, piano, viola and violin students performing to raise funds for scholarships for the 2024 season. Included with Museum admission.
Bring your lunch and enjoy live music outside at nearby Buhl Community Park or Nova Place Plaza on a solar-powered sound system every week this summer!
Concerts are 12:15 – 1:00 pm. Rain location is in the grand concourse of Nova Place.
July 7 – Miss Freddye’s Homecookin’ Band in Buhl Community Park – Acoustic group with gospel, blues, classic rock and even a hint of country and bluegrass influences.
July 14 – Liz McBride at Nova Place Plaza- Singer-songwriter with original songs and acoustic renditions of folk and rock favorites
July 21 – Alyssa Hankey in Buhl Community Park – A traveling troubadour born and raised in the hills of rural western Pennsylvania brings Rust Belt folk rock
July 28 – Lindsay Liebro at Nova Place Plaza – Original acoustic pop songs from this Pittsburgh native
August 4 – Louie Castle in Buhl Community Park – Indie rock singer-songwriter and his band
August 11 – Big Blitz at Nova Place Plaza – Noise jazz saxophone and drum trio
August 25 – Devilish Merry, the solar edition! at Nova Place Plaza – Trio with Appalachian and Irish melodies and powerful, ballad-based songs
The Solar Concert Series is a project of Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh, Saturday Light Brigade and Nova Place.
Solar Power provided by Zero Fossil.
Beethoven In Your Neighborhood: The Library Project free concert series, celebrating the musical genius of Ludwig van Beethoven and Andrew Carnegie’s establishment of many free public library systems, debuts at MuseumLab with this performance:
Wednesday, May 4, 7:00 pm
Pierce Cook, Host
Performed by Kelsey Blumenthal, Marta Krechkovsky, Andrew Wickesberg, Karissa Shivone
The series will run through June 29, featuring all 16 of Beethoven’s string quartets performed at libraries in nine Pittsburgh neighborhoods and six suburban neighborhoods, as well as at MuseumLab. This new museum for youth and teens is one of the concert sites because it is located in what was once the Carnegie Free Library of Allegheny, the first library commissioned for the public by Andrew Carnegie in 1886.
The Library Project, rescheduled from 2020 due to the pandemic, was originally conceived to commemorate the shared 125th anniversary years of both the Pittsburgh Symphony and Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh, and the 250th birth year of Ludwig van Beethoven, one of the most performed, influential and known composers in history. The 16 Beethoven string quartets serve as a blueprint of his artistic development and contain many of his most personal statements.
Teaching artist and DJ-producer David Shoemaker will lead museum visitors in exploring the relationship between music and emotions in our newest exhibit, Emotion’s at Play with Pixar’s Inside Out.
Using the exhibit’s Control Panel as a sound station, visitors will learn how simple sounds, like a piano chord or string pluck, can be the foundation for how artists use melody and rhythm to make listeners feel different emotions, from joy to sadness. Visitors will co-create their own short compositions with Shoemaker using Control Panel sounds.
Don’t miss our newest exhibit, Emotions at Play with Pixar’s Inside Out, developed by Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh in collaboration with Pixar Animation Studios © Disney / Pixar All rights reserved. Used under authorization.
