Saturday, May 15, 2010:My nephew Nick graduated from Carnegie Mellon University on May 16, 2010. To celebrate the occasion, our family congregated in Pittsburgh. We attended the festivities at the school, we had a couple of great dinners together, we toasted Nick, and we did some sightseeing in and around Pittsburgh. One of our stops, on Saturday morning, was The Carnegie Museum in Oakland.
We spent most of our time in the dinosaur exhibit and the gem exhibit, but we started out in a room off the main reception area, walking through a very interesting piece of installation art. It consisted of a series of structures, erected to create walkways through them, and each section of the exhibit was constructed of "tiles" of aluminum all in the same pattern and about 12 inches square. They were hung and strung together with chains. There were openings made to look and feel like windows, and the entire structure was surrounded by mirrored walls, which gave the appearance of its being even bigger than it already was. We were thoroughly entertained by this really cool piece of art.
Our goal this day, however, was the dinosaur exhibit. The Carnegie Museum has always had a world-class dinosaur exhibit but several years ago they completely overhauled and redid this area of the museum. The result is truly amazing. In addition to the usual fossils assembled to reflect the skeletons of these massive beasts, the exhibits are supplemented by all sorts of computer screens and graphics. We had a grand time roaming these rooms and marveling at these mysterious creatures.
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