Saturday, November 24, 2018

That's So Pittsburgh: Carnegie Museums at the Airport


Waking up more than an hour before my alarm with a sore throat and driving through the rain to the airport to stand in a briskly moving security line for my "personal massage" was palliated by discovering not one but two new (to me) installations at the airport. This one is a collection of "cabinets of curiosities" with either three-dimensional objects or a rotation of images that become clear when you stand in front of them chosen from the collections of the Andy Warhol Museum, Carnegie Science Center, and/or Carnegie Art and Natural History Museums by select famous and not-so-famous people. The mixture of old and new, simple wood and high-tech screens, "names" like Rick Sebak and ordinary Yinzers like a museum security guard is so Pittsburgh.

Editor's Note: You might also like this unusual view of St. Paul's cathedral, a pop-up museum within a museum, or some of the other sights at the Pittsburgh International Airport. You can find Part 2 here.

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