A Night at the Museum

Most of this blog will be devoted to food, but as young professionals living in a new city, I also wanted to share some of our discoveries of cheap, fun things to do.

Pittsburgh has been looking a lot like this lately:


We needed a bit of indoor entertainment to make us forget the dreary weather. So when I learned that the Carnegie Museum of Natural History is free to the public from 3:30-8pm on Thursdays in March, I jumped at the opportunity to go (it's usually $15 for adults).


The Smithsonian Natural History Museum in DC is probably my all time favorite museum (plus it's free all the time), so Carnegie's version had a lot to live up to. I was pleasantly surprised with how extensive the exhibits were. We spent about an hour looking through all the crystals, and another hour with the dinosaurs. It must have been pretty nice to have been the richest man in America. When Andrew Carnegie caught wind of a dinosaur excavation in Wyoming, he not only paid to bring the remains to his museum, but he had the dinosaur (Diplodocus carnegii) named after him as well. Does anyone want to buy me a dinosaur?

Before we left, we walked through the Hall of Architecture, which is an absolutely gorgeous room with casts of ancient buildings from all over Europe. We both highly recommend it!

If you live in Pittsburgh or are visiting Pittsburgh, the museum is definitely worth checking out (especially if you have kids or still feel like a kid). We really want to go back another day this month to visit the art museum which is next door and also free Thursday evenings in March.

Some pictures from the exhibits:


Jamie with Andrew Carnegie's Dinosaur


Angry Dinosaur Fish (he was from Kansas, too!)



Birds terrify me, so I didn't love the idea of figuring out what type of bird I would be. Turns out, I would be a Hawk, Jamie would be an owl. Thank you Carnegie Natural History Museum for clearing that up. Now can I please stop thinking about birds?