Carnegie Museums of Art and Natural History offer pre-camp care hours for children ages 6–13 enrolled in camps. Sessions include age-appropriate activities and games.
Learn more about Pre-camp: Week 01.
Roll up your sleeves and prepare to get messy! Make mystery solutions that fizz, pop, and explode. Discover why objects glow in the dark and make fluorescent crystals. Explore the science behind the perfect chocolate chip cookie. Dive into mysteries of the mind and dissect a sheep’s brain. Learn forensic science techniques and use them to solve a museum mystery.
Learn more about Super Scientist.
Explore nature’s wild and wacky wonders! Investigate flying mammals, bizarre reptiles, and mixed-up dinosaurs. Observe experiments with dry ice and test out the science of food. Design your own “weird” animal with its own unique adaptations. Scout through Hillman Hall of Minerals and Gems to find minerals that look like cookies, French fries, stars, and bubbles, plus learn the science behind rainbows.
Learn more about Weird Science.
Carnegie Museums of Art and Natural History offer post-camp care hours for children ages 6–13 enrolled in camps. Sessions include age-appropriate outdoor activities, games, and library visits—all in a relaxed, fun atmosphere. A light snack is provided at post-camp care.
Learn more about Post-camp: Week 01.
Carnegie Museums of Art and Natural History offer pre-camp care hours for children ages 6–13 enrolled in camps. Sessions include age-appropriate activities and games.
Learn more about Pre-camp: Week 02.
Discover more about your favorite dinosaurs! Get an up-close look at real fossils in the Kamin Hall of Dinosaurs. Find out where these big bones came from and learn all about prehistoric animals. Dig for replica bones like a real paleontologist, make fossil casts, and study authentic dinosaur specimens. Learn about the creatures that roamed with the dinosaurs —early mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, and insects.
Learn more about Dino Dig.
Explorers, let’s go back in time to unravel the mysteries of Earth! Journey through geologic epochs to discover the history of the planet, from trilobites to dinosaurs to the Ice Age. Conduct experiments and go behind-the-scenes to learn how the world has changed through time, and leave your own mark by constructing a time capsule to take home.
Learn more about Epoch Explorers.
Become curator, artist, and exhibition designer of your own museum experience. Explore the diverse displays and subjects on view at Carnegie Museums of Art and Natural History for inspiration and use artistry, engineering, and your unique interests to create small scale maquettes, installations, and architectural plans of a gallery concept all your own. Follow in the footsteps of the Carnegie International curatorial team and collaborate with classmates to combine your efforts into one new neighborhood museum.
Learn more about My Museum.
Discover the weird world of scientific phenomena that boggles the mind! Delve into the strange science of slithery snakes and oozy snail trails. Observe different ways scientists preserve insects from tiny fleas to giant beetles, and pick apart an owl pellet to uncover what’s inside. Search the museum for extreme objects of all shapes and sizes, from gigantic to microscopic. Investigate features that make the most bizarre creatures unique.
Learn more about Outrageous Oddities.
Construct unique artworks by combining varied materials and art processes. Mix colors and apply paint using unusual tools and techniques, create interesting textures by layering and combining materials, and experiment with different forms of printmaking like stamps and transfers. Explore the galleries to discover examples of the processes artists have used worldwide throughout history.
Learn more about Paint, Print, and Paste.
Carnegie Museums of Art and Natural History offer post-camp care hours for children ages 6–13 enrolled in camps. Sessions include age-appropriate outdoor activities, games, and library visits—all in a relaxed, fun atmosphere. A light snack is provided at post-camp care.
Learn more about Post-camp: Week 02.
Carnegie Museums of Art and Natural History offer pre-camp care hours for children ages 6–13 enrolled in camps. Sessions include age-appropriate activities and games.
Learn more about Pre-camp: Week 03.
Travel across continents and through time without ever leaving the museum! Explore the expansive art forms presented by creatives from around the world in the Carnegie International, discover the geographic origins of a sphinx, or rest in a cool spot on a hot day in France. Create sculptures, paintings, and drawings based on what you find, and fill out an art passport at each stop.
Learn more about Art Passport.
Use the Carnegie International as a source of inspiration as you discover contemporary artists who think expansively about art-making. Explore a wide range of tools to create marks, forms, and textures that can become expressive works of art. Conduct experiments and play collaborative games to generate unexpected results and discover new-to-you and processes and materials that can fuel your creative imagination.
Learn more about Carnegie International Lab.
Push, pull, squish, and turn clay into anything you can imagine—from a bowl you can use to three dimensional sculpted figures of your of your own design. Learn to use the potter’s wheel to shape vessels and hand-building techniques to construct figurative sculptures that stand, sit, or dance suspended in motion. Add texture and design to the surface of your clay works and investigate glazing techniques to include color and luster. Kiln-fired projects will be fired and available for pick-up at the museum 3 to 4 weeks after camp.
Learn more about Ceramics Studio.
A summer camp adventure 66 million years in the making! Piece together prehistoric evidence as you investigate how dinosaurs lived and why they died. Extract DNA from modern-day relatives of dinosaurs. Trek through the Kamin Hall of Dinosaurs and nearby Schenley Park to compare today’s world to that of the dinosaurs. Build a habitat, complete with life-size dinosaur murals, to transform your classroom into Jurassic Planet.
Learn more about Jurassic Planet.
Enter the world of the dinosaurs as you dive into prehistoric ecosystems in the Kamin Hall of Dinosaurs. Perform hands-on investigations with mud, rocks, minerals, and fossils. Compare the skulls and teeth of predators and prey, and learn how dinosaurs digested food. Study specimens and predict colors and patterns of dinosaur skin. Watch your own dinosaur adaptations evolve as you create a “Me-a-saurus.”
Learn more about Land of the Giants.
Explore the interesting animals of the Laurel Highlands – both real and imaginary! Investigate the real mammals, amphibians, birds, and reptiles that play important roles in the Appalachian environment, and unravel the mysteries of the mythical creatures that live only in imagination. From the real but elusive hellbender to the mythical crying squonk, discover the animals that play a role in fact and folklore and what those stories can teach us about the natural world.
Learn more about Myths and Legends: Animals of Appalachia.
Piece together a prehistoric mystery as you explore the science of paleontology. Map and excavate a mock dig site, wrap your finds in plaster fossil jackets, and transport them to the classroom. Build hands-on fossil prep skills by reconstructing discoveries and analyzing bones. Stack up your finds against the specimens in the Kamin Hall of Dinosaurs to discover what bone you’ve found, which dinosaur it came from, and how that part of the skeleton functioned.
Learn more about Paleontology: Field to Lab.
Carnegie Museums of Art and Natural History offer post-camp care hours for children ages 6–13 enrolled in camps. Sessions include age-appropriate outdoor activities, games, and library visits—all in a relaxed, fun atmosphere. A light snack is provided at post-camp care.
Learn more about Post-camp: Week 03.