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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 04.
Get ready for a wickedly fun week exploring all things Oz! Try your hand at “magic” as you mix potions, make bubble art, and investigate dry ice. Journey through the museum in search of emeralds, rubies, and other colorful jewels. Uncover the science behind melting and defy gravity by designing a flying broomstick. Learn about lions, tigers, bears, and other animals of Oz, plus craft a wand for a good witch or a bad witch.
Learn more about Bubbles and Broomsticks.
Discover an enchanted world inside the museum and make connections to some of your favorite stories. Let it all go as you experiment with ice, and go under the sea to learn about the differences between fresh and salt water. You‘ll have no worries as you learn how lions, warthogs, and meerkats survive in their ecosystems, plus explore ways you can help make the world a better place.
Learn more about Enchanted Explorations.
Let’s go green! Discover the environmental efforts that make Pittsburgh a green city. Learn about the city’s transformation from industrialized and polluted to sustainable and livable. Visit nearby “living buildings” to examine how local organizations achieve net zero energy and keep our water clean. Hike our beautiful parks and uncover how green spaces keep the city’s inhabitants healthy, from people to plants to animals. Get active on this adventurous camp with daily excursions by foot and Pittsburgh Regional Transit.
Learn more about Green Pittsburgh.
There’s no place like camp! Journey over the rainbow to uncover the mysteries of life in Oz and compare them to the natural world. Use your brain to search for ruby red and emerald green minerals, and discover how patterns help lions, tigers, and bears survive in the wild. Gather your courage and head outside in search of all the colors of the rainbow, and put your heart into colorful crafts. Make magic rainbow bubbles and get to know tiny “munchkin” plants and animals.
Learn more about Hi-Fives!: Over the Rainbow.
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 04.