Carnegie Institute

The Carnegie Institute is a cultural complex in the Oakland neighbourhood of Pittsburgh, founded in 1895 by the industrialist and philanthropist Andrew Carnegie. Built in 1895 and later expanded, the building on Forbes Avenue houses the main branch of the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh, the Carnegie Music Hall, and the Carnegie Museums of Art and Natural History.

The Carnegie Museum of Art began as the Department of Fine Arts of the Carnegie Institute, taking its present name in 1986. Its collection of some 35,000 works spans painting, sculpture, prints, and decorative arts from the seventeenth century to the present.