Pittsburgh has two "civic centers" which may be roughly equivalent to your term "cultural campus." Oakland Civic Center--includes: * Carnegie Museum of Natural History * Carnegie Museum of Art * Main Branch, Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh * Carnegie Music Hall and Carnegie Lecture Hall * Phipps Conservatory and Botanical Gardens * Soldiers and Sailors Memorial Hall and National Military Museum * Main Campus, University of Pittsburgh * Carnegie Mellon University * Carlow University * A mile further east, Chatham University * Several hospitals and research centers of the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC) * Henry Clay Frick Teachers Training Center (Pittsburgh Public Schools plan to use this as a new Science and Technology Magnet School) * Large Schenley Park * Studios of WQED-TV 13 and WQEX-TV 16, first community educational television station in nation and first sister educational television station in nation, respectively * RAND Corporation building, Pittsburgh headquarters * Mellon Institute, one of first private industrial research institutes (now part of Carnegie Mellon University) * Several non-profit fraternal organizations Formerly included: * Museum and Library of Historical Society of Western Pennsylvania [larger facility built Downtown in the 1990s) * Syria Mosque concert hall (regrettably demolished; Pittsburgh Symphony moved to Heinz Hall, Downtown) * Forbes Field, home of the Pittsburgh Pirates (demolished in 1970; Pirates moved to North Side) Lower North Side Civic Center--includes: * America's first publicly-funded Carnegie Library (presently closed after damage due to lightning strike on building--although damage repaired, Carnegie Library, regrettably, has abandoned building to build smaller branch three blocks away) * World's first Carnegie Hall; now includes New Hazlett Theater * Children's Museum of Pittsburgh, which now uses: ** Historic Buhl Planetarium building ** Historic domed Allegheny Post Office building ** New green building * National Aviary * Photo Antiquities photography musuem * Carnegie Science Center * RiverQuest river/environmental educational program * Mattress Factory Art Museum * Andy Warhol Museum * Main Campus, Community College of Allegheny County * Allegheny General Hospital complex * Kindred Hospital * Large Allegheny Commons Park (city's oldest park) * PNC Park (Pittsburgh Pirates) * Heinz Field (Pittsburgh Steelers) * Several public and parochial schools Many of the educational and recreational facilities listed do, from time-to-time, collaborate with different programs and offerings. Organizations of these facilities do exist to discuss and evaluate such collaborations. gaw Glenn A. Walsh Electronic Mail - < [log in to unmask] > SPACE & SCIENCE NEWS, ASTRONOMICAL CALENDAR: < http://buhlplanetarium.tripod.com/#news > Author of History Web Sites on the Internet -- * Buhl Planetarium, Pittsburgh: < http://buhlplanetarium.tripod.com > * Adler Planetarium, Chicago: < http://adlerplanetarium.tripod.com > * Astronomer, Educator, Optician John A. Brashear: < http://johnbrashear.tripod.com > * Andrew Carnegie & Carnegie Libraries: < http://andrewcarnegie.tripod.com > * Duquesne Incline cable-car railway, Pittsburgh: < http://incline.pghfree.net > * Public Transit: < http://andrewcarnegie2.tripod.com/transit > --- On Thu, 6/5/08, Kevin Murphy <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > From: Kevin Murphy <[log in to unmask]> > Subject: Re: [MUSEUM-L] museums that are part of a cultural campus > To: [log in to unmask] > Date: Thursday, June 5, 2008, 2:10 PM > I think perhaps my institution, the Huntington Library, Art > Collections, and Botanical Gardens in San Marino, CA, might > count? > > > Kevin M. Murphy, Ph.D. > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Beth Rubin <[log in to unmask]> > To: [log in to unmask] > Sent: Wed, 4 Jun 2008 10:44 am > Subject: [MUSEUM-L] museums that are part of a cultural > campus > > > > > > > Hello, > > For a project I'm working on I'm trying to find > examples of museums (preferably science or children's > musuems)?that are part of a cultural campus and have joint > programming, ticketing, etc.? For example, I know about the > Museums of Springfield (MA) and Flint Cultural Center (MI).? > Are there other examples?? Thanks? > ? > > Beth Rubin > AMS Planning & Research > 8147 Delmar Blvd., Suite 218 > St. Louis, MO 63130 > Tel: 314-727-2880 > > Fax: 314-727-0348 > [log in to unmask] > > ? > > > > > ========================================================= > Important Subscriber Information: > The Museum-L FAQ file is located at > http://www.finalchapter.com/museum-l-faq/ . 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