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North East Digital Village
Museums: Forward through Our Past
Mid-Atlantic USA
Pennsylvania
Academy of Natural Sciences (cite: acnatsci.org)
1900 Benjamin Franklin Parkway, Philadelphia, PA 19103, 215-299-1000
Permanent exhibits on Dinosaurs, Dioramas, and Academy research as well as a space for traveling exhibits. Educational exhibits and programs interpret the results of Academy research in ways that have relevance and meaning for the audiences.
Hours : Monday-Friday 10:00AM-4:30PM, Saturdays, Sundays & Holidays 10:00AM-5:00PM
The Andy Warhol Museum (cite: warhol.org)
117 Sandusky Street, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15212-5890. USA, 412.237.8300, Fax: 412.237.8340, e-mail:information@warhol.org
The museum, housed in a renovated seven-floor warehouse building, displays more than 500 works of art, drawn from its extensive collections of works by Andy Warhol in all media, as well as from its huge archives and a collection of works by other artists. Ever-changing, exhibiting works arranged in an integrated, interdisciplinary manner. With film, video, and archival materials shown together with paintings, prints, and drawings, the museum offers the visitor a comprehensive presentation of the development of Warhol's work
HOURS: Sunday 10 AM - 5 PM, Monday Closed, Tuesday -Saturday 10 AM - 5 PM
Carnegie Museum of Natural History (cite: carnegiemnh.org)
4400 Forbes Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, 412.622.3131
The sixth largest natural history museum in America. PaleoLab, Dinosaurs in Their World, Anthropology, Birds, Botany, Conservation, Herpetology, Invertebrate Paleontology, Invertebrate Zoology, Mammals, Minerals, Mollusks, Paleobotany, Powdermill Nature Reserve, Vertebrate Paleontology
HOURS: Tuesday through Saturday 10 AM - 5 PM, Sunday 12 PM - 5 PM, Closed Mondays
Carnegie Museum of Art (cite: cmoa.org)
4400 Forbes Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, 412.622.3131
Hours: Tuesday through Saturday: 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Sunday: noon to 5 p.m., Closed Mondays and legal holidays.
Architecture, Decorative Arts, Film and Video, Paintings, Sculpture, Works on Paper
Carnegie Science Center (cite: carnegiesciencecenter.org)
One Allegheny Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15212-5850, 412.237.3400
Miniature Railroad & Village®, UPMC SportsWorks, USS Requin Submarine, Henry Buhl, Jr. Planetarium & Observatory, Moviemaking Exhibit, Science Stage, Laser Fantasy Shows, Observatory SkyWatch, Works Theater, Rangos Omnimax Theater and SciQuest where you can step inside a wind tunnel, feel an earthquake, or control a four-foot tornado as you explore the forces of nature, the physics of flight and sound, and the science of light and waves.
Fallingwater (cite: paconserve.org)
Fallingwater, PO Box R, Mill Run, PA 15464, (724) 329-8501, fallingwater@paconserve.org
Fallingwater is located on PA Route 381 between the villages of Mill Run and Ohiopyle.
Fallingwater is recognized as one of Wright's most acclaimed works, and in a 1991 poll of members of the American Institute of Architects, it was voted "the best all-time work of American architecture." The collections of the Fallingwater Museum are comprised of more than 950 works of art including prints, paintings, sculpture, furniture, ceramics, art glass, and miscellaneous household objects. Of particular significance in the collection are the 169 pieces of original walnut furniture, custom designed by Frank Lloyd Wright for Fallingwater. These pieces represent one of the most complete ensembles of Wright designed, site-specific furniture.
Wright's architecture at Fallingwater reflects, enhances, and draws inspiration from the surrounding rocks, trees, stream, and waterfall. Bear Run is a swift stream, fed by numerous mountain springs, falling 1,430 feet in four miles from the western slops of Laurel Hill ridge to join the Youghiogheny River. Small waterfalls, or cascades, dot the length of Bear Run.
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New York
American Museum of Natural History (cite: amnh.org)
79th Street and Central Park West, New York City, NY
Cosmic Collisions: The breathtaking new Space Show, launches visitors on a thrilling trip through space and time to explore cosmic collisions, hypersonic impacts that drive the dynamic and continuing evolution of the universe. SonicVision: How do you see your music? Museum Timeline: Follow a timeline of the history of the Museum, from its opening in 1869 to the present. The Gottesman Hall of Planet Earth: Displays one of the most outstanding collections of geological specimens ever displayed in an exhibition hall. The Milstein Hall of Ocean Life: Home to one of the Museum's most celebrated icons, the 94-foot-long blue whale model, the hall was recently transformed into a fully immersive marine environment with video projections, interactive computer stations, and new ocean dioramas. Also Dinosaurs, the Space Shows, IMAX® films.
OPERATING HOURS: Open daily, 10:00 a.m.–5:45 p.m.
Rose Center remains open until 8:45 p.m. on the first Friday of every month. Museum is closed Thanksgiving and Christmas Day.
Space Show Hours: Every half-hour, 10:30 a.m.–4:30 p.m.; First Friday of every month 10:30 a.m.–7:00 p.m.
Paleontological Research Insitution (cite: priweb.org & museumoftheearth.org)
1259 Trumansburg Road, Ithaca, NY 14850, 607-273-6623, fax: 607-273-6620, info@museumoftheearth.org, Ithaca, NY
A world-class collection, containing everything from dinosaur eggs of China to one of the most comprehensive Paleozoic trilobite, brachipod, coral and crinoid collections in the United States.
PRI's Museum of the Earth
Showcases a wide selection of fossils from the collection of the Paleontological Research Institution, which contains over 2 million specimens; from the tiniest of microfossils to the giants of the Ice Age, you can see it in the Museum. These relics of the past illuminate the ever-changing history of life on earth. Ninety nine percent of Earth's history passed before anything resembling a human was there to witness it. The Museum's interactive, creative exhibits present ancient tales and offer clues to what the Earth's future might hold.
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New Jersey
Children's Museum of Somerset County (cite: kidsmuseumnj.org)
120 Finderne Avenue, Room 210 (Suite 13), Bridgewater, NJ 08807 (between Union Ave/Route 28 and Main Street), 908-595-0001. info@kidsmuseumnj.org
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