Join us in MAKESHOP to learn all about plastic! Explore the properties and uses of different recycled plastic types. What kinds of tools can be used to change its shape, size, or texture? Throughout the month, we’ll be experimenting with things like heat tools, 3D printing, and plastic bag weaving.
Tag: sustainability
MAKESHOP: Plastic Processing
Join us in MAKESHOP to learn all about plastic! Explore the properties and uses of different recycled plastic types. What kinds of tools can be used to change its shape, size, or texture? Throughout the month, we’ll be experimenting with things like heat tools, 3D printing, and plastic bag weaving.
MAKESHOP: Plastic Processing
Join us in MAKESHOP to learn all about plastic! Explore the properties and uses of different recycled plastic types. What kinds of tools can be used to change its shape, size, or texture? Throughout the month, we’ll be experimenting with things like heat tools, 3D printing, and plastic bag weaving.
MAKESHOP: Plastic Processing
Join us in MAKESHOP to learn all about plastic! Explore the properties and uses of different recycled plastic types. What kinds of tools can be used to change its shape, size, or texture? Throughout the month, we’ll be experimenting with things like heat tools, 3D printing, and plastic bag weaving.
MAKESHOP: Plastic Processing
Join us in MAKESHOP to learn all about plastic! Explore the properties and uses of different recycled plastic types. What kinds of tools can be used to change its shape, size, or texture? Throughout the month, we’ll be experimenting with things like heat tools, 3D printing, and plastic bag weaving.
MAKESHOP: Plastic Processing
Join us in MAKESHOP to learn all about plastic! Explore the properties and uses of different recycled plastic types. What kinds of tools can be used to change its shape, size, or texture? Throughout the month, we’ll be experimenting with things like heat tools, 3D printing, and plastic bag weaving.
MAKESHOP: Plastic Processing
Join us in MAKESHOP to learn all about plastic! Explore the properties and uses of different recycled plastic types. What kinds of tools can be used to change its shape, size, or texture? Throughout the month, we’ll be experimenting with things like heat tools, 3D printing, and plastic bag weaving.
MAKESHOP: Plastic Processing
Join us in MAKESHOP to learn all about plastic! Explore the properties and uses of different recycled plastic types. What kinds of tools can be used to change its shape, size, or texture? Throughout the month, we’ll be experimenting with things like heat tools, 3D printing, and plastic bag weaving.
STEM Saturday
Celebrate innovative and inclusive STEM learning with FREE hands-on activities, live demonstrations and creative experiences outdoors on Rainbow Road and at MuseumLab!
Outside the Museum, 10:00 am – Noon
- Obstacle course drone flying by Center for Aviation Training & Technology at Hosanna House
- Robot demonstrations with BotsIQ
- Catapult building and painting
Outside the Museum, 1:00 – 4:00 pm
- Motorcycle Take Apart
- See live alpacas and alpaca fiber spinning with The Crafty Alpacas
- Weaving and coding with CMU Human-Computer Interaction Institute
- Nebula spin art with Moonshot Museum
- 3D die cut chips with Protohaven and Dick Esterle
- Fossil exploration with Carnegie Museum of Natural History
- Loom weaving
- Electronic music performances by CMU Electronic Music Program
- Make UV bead bracelets, Afrofuturism Adinkra bookmarks and dotted Mandala art with Assemble
- Fun with the Carnegie Science Center
In MuseumLab, Noon – 5:00 pm
- Experience Full Tilt, a multi-player pinball-like experience, with CMU Entertainment Technology Center
- Try claymation and clay sculpting
- Electronics Take Apart
- Make your own kinetic paintings
- Create stop motion animation
- Discover the Dah-Varsity AI platform with Toyz Electronics
Additional STEM activities will be offered in Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh. Regular admission rates for the Children’s Museum apply.
STEM Saturday is part of Remake Learning Days Southwestern PA 2025, #RemakeLearningDaysSWPA. Learn more at https://remakelearningdays.org/.
Pittsburgh Youth Climate Action Summit
Join us at MuseumLab for a day filled with inspiring talks, interactive workshops and networking opportunities.
This event is all about empowering young people to make a difference in the fight against climate change. Whether you’re passionate about renewable energy, sustainable living or environmental policy, there’s something for everyone.
Come together with like-minded individuals and learn how you can take action in your own community. Let’s work together to create a greener, more sustainable future! Presented in partnership with Communitopia.
For ages 12 – 19
Recycle Fest
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.
MAKESHOP: Book and Zine Making
Join us in MAKESHOP to create your very own book or mini magazine! Explore the parts and pieces of books, then use paper, recycled materials and bookbinding tools to make your own. How will you fill the pages of your creation?
MAKESHOP: Book and Zine Making
Join us in MAKESHOP to create your very own book or mini magazine! Explore the parts and pieces of books, then use paper, recycled materials and bookbinding tools to make your own. How will you fill the pages of your creation?
MAKESHOP: Book and Zine Making
Join us in MAKESHOP to create your very own book or mini magazine! Explore the parts and pieces of books, then use paper, recycled materials and bookbinding tools to make your own. How will you fill the pages of your creation?
MAKESHOP: Book and Zine Making
Join us in MAKESHOP to create your very own book or mini magazine! Explore the parts and pieces of books, then use paper, recycled materials and bookbinding tools to make your own. How will you fill the pages of your creation?
MAKESHOP: Book and Zine Making
Join us in MAKESHOP to create your very own book or mini magazine! Explore the parts and pieces of books, then use paper, recycled materials and bookbinding tools to make your own. How will you fill the pages of your creation?
MAKESHOP: Book and Zine Making
Join us in MAKESHOP to create your very own book or mini magazine! Explore the parts and pieces of books, then use paper, recycled materials and bookbinding tools to make your own. How will you fill the pages of your creation?
MAKESHOP: Book and Zine Making
Join us in MAKESHOP to create your very own book or mini magazine! Explore the parts and pieces of books, then use paper, recycled materials and bookbinding tools to make your own. How will you fill the pages of your creation?