Museums Offer #Free Admission to
Military Families through Blue Star Museums Program
May 23–September 1, 2014
Summer Hours Announced
Pittsburgh,
Pennsylvania…Admission to Carnegie Museums of Art and Natural History will be free
for all active duty military personnel and their families from Friday, May 23,
through Monday, September 1, 2014, as part of the Blue Star Museums Program.
Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh Members always visit free. Regular parking rates
apply. Carnegie Museums of Art and Natural History offer 50% off admission for
active military personnel year-round for up to four people per military ID.
Admission to fee-based Carnegie Museum of Art and Carnegie Museum of Natural
History programs, such as Culture Club and pre-registered events, is not
included.
Carnegie
Museums of Art and Natural History are two of the more than 2,000 museums
participating in the Blue Star Museums program, a project of the National
Endowment for the Arts, which brings quality arts programs to the military and
their families. The free admission program is available to any bearer of a
Geneva Convention Common Access Card (CAC), a DD Form 1173 ID Card, or a DD
Form 1173-1 ID Card, which includes active duty military personnel—and up to
five of their immediate family members—in the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines,
Coast Guard, National Guard and Reserve, U.S. Public Health Service
Commissioned Corps, and NOAA Commissioned Corps.
Summer
Hours – Open Seven Days a Week!
All
museum visitors can take advantage of extended summer hours, when Carnegie
Museums of Art and Natural History are open on Tuesdays, 10 a.m.–5 p.m. between
Memorial Day and Labor Day. The museums are open for Independence Day on
Friday, July 4.
What’s
on View
In
addition to the Scaife and Bruce galleries displaying the permanent art
collections, visitors to Carnegie Museum of Art during the Blue Star Museums
Program may enjoy an exceptional array of special exhibitions:
The
Sandbox: At Play with the Photobook (Hillman Photography Initiative), through July
28
David
Hartt: Stray Light, through
August 11
Outtakes, through
September 1
Teenie
Harris Photographs: Baseball in Pittsburgh, through September 22
Small
Prints, Big Artists: Masterpieces from the Renaissance to the Baroque, opening May 31
Architecture
Explorations, opening
June 9
Faked,
Forgotten, Found: Five Renaissance Paintings Investigated, opening June 28
Cory
Escoto: Sleight of Hand, opening July 19
At
Carnegie Museum of Natural History, visitors are treated to such favorites as Dinosaurs
in Their Time, Hillman Hall of Gems and Minerals, Walton Hall of Ancient
Egypt, and Population Impact as well as these limited-time exhibitions:
· RACE:
Are We So Different? through October 27
· Michael
Dyber: Master of Optical Illusion, May 31–August 31
Carnegie
Museum of Art and Carnegie Museum of Natural History
Located at 4400
Forbes Avenue in the Oakland section of Pittsburgh, Carnegie Museum of Art and
Carnegie Museum of Natural History were founded by industrialist and
philanthropist Andrew Carnegie in 1895. Two of the four Carnegie Museums of
Pittsburgh, they are nationally and internationally recognized for their
collections. For more information, call 412.622.3131 or visit www.carnegiemuseums.org
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