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The Carnegie Museum of Natural History was founded by industrialist and philanthropist Andrew Carnegie in 1896. The museum first came into prominence when, in 1899, its scientists unearthed the first fossils of a dinosaur that became known as Diplodocus carnegii.
The huge museum has many different foci, including zoology, herpetology, archeology, gems and minerals, and vertebrate paleontology, but it is the dinosaurs that bring in the visitors. The museum has the world’s largest collection of Jurassic dinosaurs, the world’s only fossils of a juvenile apatosaurus, and the world’s first specimen of a Tyrannosaurus rex. The museum will fascinate youngsters and adults alike.
Address: Carnegie Museum of Natural History, 4400 Forbes Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, Phone: 412-622-3131
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