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Carnegie Museum of Art – for children

February 18, 2006 Natalia

Child Magazine ranked the best museums in the country for children.

Check it out:

1. Art Institute of Chicago
2. Metropolitan Museum of Art, NYC
3. Dayton Art Institute
4. De Young, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
5. CARNEGIE MUSEUM OF ART, Pittsburgh
6. Los Angeles County Museum of Art
7. Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha
8. Winterthur Museum & Country Estate, DE
9. Dallas Museum of Art
10. Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, MA
(Thanks to Ambrose for the link!)

Why? According to the article:

5. Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh:

  • Hosts weekend drop-in programs in the galleries for kids ages 4 and up that often include a treasure hunt and an art-making activity
  • Offers hourlong Preschool Playdates for toddlers; a child and a parent hear nursery rhymes, watch finger plays, and make art in the galleries
  • Boasts many family conveniences, including free strollers to borrow, quick-service restaurants with kid-friendly fare, and a Brown Bag Lunchroom with a microwave


“Fierce Friends: Artists and Animals, 1750-1900,” which opens March 26 (with live animals from the Pittsburgh Zoo!) and runs through late summer. Organized with the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam, the installation will focus on the link between animals and humans in art and in life and include many hands-on activities for families, such as drawing exercises.

Art Cat is the mascot of family programming at the Carnegie Museum of Art, and his feline curiosity and irrepressible spirit are evident at the museum, especially on his popular audio tour. “We’re all about fun here — an investigative, curious kind of fun,” says Marilyn Russell, curator of education. “We give contextual information, but we don’t feel that, for instance, learning the definition of baroque is what’s meaningful to most people,” she says. “There needs to be a reason for looking at artwork that was made a long time ago other than someone says you should look at it. It has to have meaning for a contemporary viewer — especially if that viewer is a child.”

Russell’s staff and the installations that they produce encourage kids to talk about what they see as opposed to the artwork itself. “We have a painting by Alfred Bierstadt of seals in the water, and we talk about what the animals might be doing,” she says. “We get kids to imagine they’re in the painting and what that experience might be like. We like creative, open-ended thinking. We encourage kids to find their own reasons for being drawn to art.”

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