Step back in time with the Heinz History Center
The Senator John Heinz History Center, Pennsylvania's largest history museum, operates in association with the Smithsonian Institution. It features a number of traveling and permanent exhibitions, such as the Western Pennsylvania Sports Museum, a dynamic museum-within-a-museum.
At the History Center, you can step inside a 1790s log cabin, discover how immigrants shaped this region, uncover the myths of the Underground Railroad, experience the thrill of our unmatched sports legacy and climb aboard a 1940s Pittsburgh trolley. The History Center brings more than 250 years of Western Pennsylvania to life!
If you get there between now and August 5, 2007 you’ll be able to see Capture the Moment: The Pulitzer Prize Photographs. This is the largest and most comprehensive exhibition of Pulitzer Prize-winning photographs since the award’s inception in 1942. There are 135 classics of photojournalism that capture defining moments from the mid-20th century through today, including iconic images of the Kent State shootings, the World Trade Center attacks, and raising the flag at Iwo Jima. The photographs featured in the exhibition bear stark witness against war and brutality and honor heroism, compassion, and the strivings of ordinary people for better lives.
Each photograph is accompanied by a text panel of information which helps for those who don’t know the events and their circumstances. Also, allow enough time to see the video which goes behind the scenes of six of the photographs so you get a very accurate understanding of how news photographers work at their jobs.
The History Center and the Western Pennsylvania Sports Museum are located in Pittsburgh’s Strip District at 1212 Smallman Street. It is open daily from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and only closed on New Year's Day, Easter, Thanksgiving, and Christmas Day.
