Support your professional team or a team you care about with an interactive Remote Team Building experience led by the Children's Museum professionals. Participants will engage in hands-on making, thoughtful discussions, and remote teamwork opportunities that encourage collaboration from afar. Opportunities can be designed to fit specific needs or goals of the participating organization.

This session is good for a maximum of 20 participants and is a two-hour experience.

Host your next party at the Children's Museum of Pittsburgh! From family or corporate functions, the Children's Museum offers a unique venue that your guests are sure to remember! Add Rania's Catering and your guests will be sure to have a great experience at your event!

This package is good for a two hour event at the Children's Museum of Pittsburgh and a 10% discount on food services from Rania's Catering. The 10% coupon is not valid for the cost of staffing.

Are you missing the Children's Museum's Studio and MAKESHOP as much as we are? Then this package is for you! Have a little piece of the art at CMP in your home! Firstly, memorialize your child's drawings on a custom handmade porcelain plate! You and your child will submit a drawing on an 8" circle and it will be transferred into a stunning black and white design. The piece is one of a kind and handmade by the Museum's Art Studio Manager and ceramic artist, Carina Kooiman. Next, take home this framed painting that was collaboratively made in the Museum by our children visitors. Lastly, add these hand woven coasters, done by the Museum's MakeShop Manager, Rebecca Grabman!

With this package, you will receive 1 postcard sized original art piece in the mail each month for a year! Each art card will be created and signed by a member of the Museum's staff. By the end of the year, you'll have quite a collection! This package also includes a three month subscription box with delicious seasonal treasures grown in the Museum garden! Enjoy a note with updates from the Garden and some of our favorite colorful crops, such as mouse melons, cherry tomatoes, eggplants, snacking peppers, as well as herbs to delight the senses. Though the Children's Museum may be closed to the public right now, you can experience a little bit of the joy, creativity and curiosity at home with this subscription package!

The Garden CSA will be available for July, August and September and is to be picked up at the Museum.

Get ready for Emotions at Play at the Children's Museum of Pittsburgh, opening in early 2021! This exhibit is created in collaboration with Pixar Animation Studios to create an interactive exhibit based on the film. In this exhibit, you'll navigate interactive experiences that help you recognize, understand and balance emotions like Joy, Sadness, Anger, Disgust and Fear. This auction package is filled with Pixar and Inside Out goodies including a signed Inside Out poster by the Inside Out Director Pete Docter and Producer, Jonas Rivera and other Pixar fun! Also included is a family admission pass to the Children's Museum of Pittsburgh so you can come enjoy the exhibit when it opens!

Enjoy a night in MuseumLab curated by YOU for you and your friends! Choose from a list of classic MAKEnight activities for you and your pals to enjoy all while sipping on a glass of wine and enjoying some light fare. We'll provide the tools, materials, experts, and wine- you bring the buddies! Go on and get yourself a party, you're worth it.

This is event is good for up to 50 people. Activities are predetermined by Museum staff, but will inspired by classic MakeLab activities and the current StudioLab exhibition. All attendees must be over 21. Event must be held Monday thru Thursday between the hours of 6pm and 9pm and the final date will be confirmed by the Museum.

A 2 hour evening to-do for you and (up to) 9 of your closest friends. Sip tasty wines while enjoying casual instructions from a Museum Teaching Artist. You'll be guided through the making process of creating your own fancy olive dish, and learn techniques for personalizing it with texture and pattern. You'll also each receive a handmade porcelain cup to paint! Once fired (process takes a few weeks) you'll have all you need to host your own little get together!

For the historian

The first, free, public Carnegie Library commissioned by Andrew Carnegie in the U.S. was completed in Allegheny City in 1890. The historic structure remained as part of the Carnegie Library system until storm damage moved the library two blocks to a new structure on Federal Street. The body of this guitar came from a large 16/4 X 9/4 inch beam of Eastern White Pine salvaged during renovation in 2018 to create MuseumLab.

The beam, coated in a century of coal smoke and steel mill dust, held plaster lathe fastened with machine-cut square nails. Saw and tool marks testify to a large bolt and nut that held this wood to the steel and stone of the Library. The carriage bolt and nut in the guitar body emulate the original and the square nails have been reset. The Carnegie logo on the headstock is a faithful recreation of the Carnegie brand, still visible and stamped in the steel beams of MuseumLab.

For the musician

This telecaster-style guitar captures Leo Fender's design for the first mass-produced guitar to put electric guitars within reach for the masses. This recreation has modern updates to produce great tone and playability while remaining consistent with Fender's original intent. The Telecaster to this day remains one of the iconic electric guitars for its blue-collar attitude and unmistakable sound. Fender's original prototypes were made of pine like this one, but that was abandoned for alder once production began. Fender-licensed parts were used to create this unique instrument with extraordinary quality, authenticity and tone.

Modern enhancements include:

* Warmoth Modern maple neck with ebony fret board and with a hand cut, fossil mammoth ivory nut.

* The 130-year old, eastern white pine body is close-grained and light with remarkable resonance that produces a clear tone and an unusual bark and growl.

* The Rose "Alba" and "Bourbon" pickups emulate Leo Fender's hand-wound originals.

* Controls include a 4-way switch that provides the original three pickup selections with an additional lead channel, linking the neck and bridge pickup in series.

* The pickup and control cavities as well as the pick guard are copper-lined and electrically grounded to reduce hum and noise.

* Hard shell case and certificate of authenticity included.

The one-of-a-kind combination of old and modern, with a nod to the industrial past and blue-collar roots, makes this guitar one for the ages.

Made on an 8 harness floor loom, this weaving is a point twill. It is an 87 inch long, 14.5 inch wide cotton scarf, lovingly woven in a wide variety of cheerful colors! Through the weaving process, the thread is carefully counted out, wound onto the loom, threaded through small wire loops, and then through a metal reed. Each color- from the gold to the dusty rose to the duck green- is sent through the warp on a wooden shuttle. Katie Koffler, the Children's Museum's Associate Director of Arts and Making, created this weaving using a loom from MAKESHOP- used in the Children's Museum of Pittsburgh. Snuggle up with this weaving!

Turn a child's drawing into a custom stuffed toy! Submit a photograph of a favorite drawing and Sarah La Rue, the Children's Museum of Pittsburgh's MAKESHOP Coordinator, will bring it to life as a cuddly friend.