About Children's Museum Of Pittsburgh...
Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh is a place that delights and inspires children, where they can take off on fantastic flights of imagination daily, and return to earth to splash in a river, hammer a nail and ink a silkscreen. We were named the #1 Children’s Museum in the country in the 2026 USA Today’s 10Best Readers’ Choice award and have ranked in the top ten of this list since 2020.
The Museum routinely welcomes more than 300,000 visitors and provides loads of “real stuff” experiences for play and learning. Hands-on, interactive exhibit areas and experiences that inspire kindness, joy, creativity and curiosity include the Studio, MAKESHOP, Waterplay, Nursery, Garage, Kindness Gallery and Backyard.
The Children’s Museum’s award-winning, three-story building connects two historic buildings, Allegheny Post Office Building & the Buhl Building. Its center building is screened by a shimmering wind sculpture created by environmental artist Ned Kahn (Articulated Cloud). In 2006 the Museum became a certified green building (Silver LEED) and was honored by the American Institute for Architects and the National Historic Preservation Trust.
In 2019, we opened MuseumLab for children 10 and up, with cutting edge experiences in making, art and technology. MuseumLab is located next door to the Children’s Museum building in the historic former Carnegie Free Library of Allegheny. This building became a certified green building (Gold LEED) in 2020 and was honored by the American Institute for Architects Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania Historic Trust for Preservation and PA Museums.
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