Planning, Construction, and Opening of Complex
Including Historic Preservation Objections
Opening of Expanded Children's Museum of Pittsburgh, Which Includes
The Buhl Planetarium and Institute of Popular Science Building --
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Critique - 2004 November 13:
Critique of newly-expanded complex called the Children's Museum of Pittsburgh
Including The Buhl Planetarium and Institute of Popular Science building
By Glenn A. Walsh
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Public Statements and
Correspondence
Regarding Completion of Expansion Project
of the Children's Museum of Pittsburgh, including use of
The Buhl Planetarium and Institute of Popular Science building.
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From the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Pittsburgh - 2005 January 25:
[1]
Expanded Children's Museum packs in more fun and creativity By Patricia Lowry
[2]
Child's-eye view finds museum offers a great big place to play By Victoria Lowry
From the Pittsburgh City Paper, Pittsburgh - 2004 November 17:
Writing on the Walls
Second Childhood
The Children’s Museum is reborn
Writer: CHARLES ROSENBLUM; Photographer: HEATHER MULL>
News Articles from the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Pittsburgh --
2004 November 13:
Editorial: Museum quality /
Pittsburghers reap the joys of expansion
2004 November 10:
Children's Museum receives another $1 million in state funds
2004 November 8:
Lions' losing takes toll By Chico Harlan
Regarding mixup in Penn State football coverage on WTAE-TV 4, resulting in
airing of video clip of ribbon-cutting at Children's Museum.
2004 November 8:
Lifestyle - across town
More gatherings and notable events ...
Children's Museum Gala
2004 November 5:
Weekend Hotlist, 11/05/04
HAVE SOME FUN
At the Children's Museum of Pittsburgh
2004 October 31:
The Real Deal: Museum promises hands-on fun with "stuff"
By Monica Haynes
2004 October 31:
At the renovated Children's Museum,
the building is the biggest exhibit of all
By Patricia Lowry
News Articles from the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, Pittsburgh --
2004 November 8:
Fanfare with Jean Horne
Child's play By Jean Horne
(Second sub-article, from beginning of news story)
2004 November 7:
Bigger, better way to play all day
By Bobby Kerlik
2004 November 4:
Children's Museum of Pittsburgh to reopen
By Kurt Shaw, TRIBUNE-REVIEW ART CRITIC
2004 October 31:
Artists prepare works for opening of the
expanded Children's Museum
By Kurt Shaw, TRIBUNE-REVIEW ART CRITIC
Proposed Pittsburgh Children's Museum and Center --
Consolidating the Buhl Planetarium and
Old
Allegheny Post Office Buildings
Photograph of Model and Plans
of the Proposed Pittsburgh Children's Museum and Center[an expansion of the
Pittsburgh Children's Museum,
currently housed in the Old Allegheny Post Office building],
consisting of the Buhl Planetarium
building and the Old Allegheny Post Office building connected by a luminous, translucent glass structure.
Architectural firm
Koning Eizenberg Architecture, of Santa Monica, California, won an A.D. 2000 architectural
design competition, for this project, co-sponsored by the National Endowment for the Arts.
Other photographs of the proposed Pittsburgh Children's Museum and Center:
From the Northside Chronicle ***
From the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
For more information about the proposed Pittsburgh Children's Museum and Center project--
Newspaper Accounts
Letters-to-the-Editor
Public Statements
The expanded
Children's Museum of Pittsburgh now occupies three buildings
(originally known as the Pittsburgh Children's Museum, it occupied one building, the Old Allegheny Post Office, from 1983 to 2004.) --