Fun Facts
Many of these have been rescued from poor living conditions and now receive excellent care at the museum.
a) living animals
b) Museum workers
c) visitors
a) living animals
The museum has been collecting living animals from poor conditions. For example, Mango the Sun Conure was rescued from a hoarder's house and is now receiving excellent care at the museum.
How old is the Carnegie Museum of Natural History?
a) 256 years old
b) 128 years old
c) 63 years old
b) 128 years old
The museum was established in November of 1895, making it now 128 years old!!
Once a year Carnegie Museum offers a day for museum-goers to enter free of charge, it is known as:
a) RADical Day: Free Day
b) Free Day
c) Get in free
a) RADical Day: Free Day
At the Museum RADical Days is an annual 'thank you' to taxpayers, offering a chance to see the best of Allegheny County's top cultural destinations free of charge.
This percentage of the fossils on display at the museum are the real original dinosaurs, the rest are cast replicas of the bones.
a) 100%
b) 75%
c) 50%
b) 75%
While most museums worldwide use casts for their dinosaur displays the Carnegie Museum of Natural History has a display incorporating 75% real dinosaur fossils in reconstructions of their natural environments.
The very first purchase made by Andrew Carnegie for the museum was a:
a) coffin and mummy
b) colossal dinosaur
c) Ancient gem
Andrew Carnegie's first purchase for the museum was the coffin and mummy of an Egyptian chantress of Amun, who was likely a temple singer from Dynasty 21, dating back to 1069 B.C. (over 3000 years ago!).
Enjoy this exciting opportunity to identify mushrooms, yeast, and molds known as:
a) fungi
b) plants
c) animals
a) fungi
At this museum event, you can learn mushroom identification tips and discover the ecological roles of various mushrooms. After the lecture hit the trail to look for common fall mushrooms.
The entire museum has more than this many items in it.
a) 22 million
b) 546,000
c) 36
a) 22 million
The museum is always rotating the 22 million items they have in and out of public view because their is not enough display space for the vast amount of items kept.
Another early item of the Carnegie Museum of History is the spoke of a:
a) wagon wheel
b) bike tire
c) automobile wheel
a) wagon wheel
The spoke of a wagon wheel that was blown to pieces by a nitroglycerine explosion was among the first items being added to the museum by Andrew Carnegie.
At this event, you will be able to engage in behind the scenes experiences about this flying animal:
a) birds
b) bees
c) eagles
a) birds
Visitors will even get to hear about how the museum is studying birds' perception of the glass to provide glass manufacturers and building designers with important information to help reduce bird-window collisions.
Carnegie Museum's very first dinosaur find was the:
a) Diplodocus Carnegii
b) Apatosaurus Louisae
c) Tyrannosaurus rex
a) Dipplodocus Carneggi
In 1899 a team of scientists discovered and assembled the Diplodocus Carnegii. In 1999, a life-size statue of Dippy was placed in front of the museum to celebrate his 100th anniversary of being Pittsburgh's Dinosaur.
For the first 30 years of its existence, this exhibit at the museum did not have a full-time curator.
a) Dinosaurs in Their Time
b) Amphibians and Reptiles
c) Hillman Hall of Minerals and Gems
b) Amphibians and Reptiles
This exhibit flourished thanks to passionate volunteers who continued making sure everything was safely kept until a full-time curator stepped up to the plate.
At Powedermill Nature Center the museum offers a guided nature walk for
a) Adults only
b) Kids only
c) All ages
c) All ages
At Powdermill you will explore beautiful woodlands on a walk that features local wildlife, an indoor stream, and a marsh machine that uses a living greenhouse to purify wastewater.
The oldest object in the museum is
a) 1 million years old
b) 100 million years old
c) 1 billion years old
c) 1 billion years old
Having an impressive amount of ancient artifacts, there is one in the museum that is the oldest of all; this being a chunk of banded iron formation.
Of the 206,000 birds cataloged in the Carnegie Museum, the first one added to the collection was a:
a) Goose
b) Blue Jay
c) Bald Eagle
c) Bald eagle
The first bird on display at the museum was a bald eagle shot to death during the Battle of Gettysburg in 1863, it was donated by James J. Booth of Pittsburgh.
In this unique experience "Haunted Museum" you will get to visit the museum:
a) during normal hours
b) after dark
c) at sunrise
b) after dark
At "Haunted Museum After Dark" you will discover what is fact or fiction, and what mysteries are still waiting to be solved. You will also learn what creatures inspired the monsters we see in stories and movies!