Colors and light play important roles in the natural world, and things aren’t always how they appear! Explore the visual features animals use to blend in and stand out. Inspect beautiful minerals and gems that dazzle, and how they change when different types of light are cast. Watch iridescent insects change color before your eyes. Find nature’s rainbow, and more, as we examine light, color, and patterns in the natural world around us.
Museum Admission is Required to Attend This Event
Get tickets and select Dec. 14 for the date of your visit.
Sponsors
Super Science Saturdays are sponsored by PA Cyber, Tender Care Learning Centers, a proud partner of Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh, and Discover Westmoreland.
Museums are full of mysteries for us to explore! How did those big dinosaur bones get into the museum? What’s behind the miniature door on the 3rd floor? How do scientists know they’ve found something NEW? And is there really a hotdog in the mural around the grand staircase? Join us to learn the secrets behind some of our greatest museum mysteries.
Sponsors
Super Science Saturdays are sponsored by PA Cyber, Tender Care Learning Centers, a proud partner of Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh, and Discover Westmoreland.
Caring for the museum’s millions of specimens is a BIG job! Investigate the science of conservation and restoration that keeps the cherished objects in our care safe. Meet museum conservators and watch them demonstrate conservation techniques in real time in Dinosaurs in Their Time, the Hall of North American Wildlife, and the conservation lab in The Stories We Keep. Discover the 10 “Agents of Deterioration” that conservators guard against and learn how to care for your special things at home.
Sponsors
Super Science Saturdays are sponsored by PA Cyber, Tender Care Learning Centers, a proud partner of Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh, and Discover Westmoreland.
Looking for family-friendly spring-themed activities? Join us for Egg-stravaganza! The egg-citement returns with our annual springtime scavenger hunt and an egg-cellent line-up of things to do with kids! From tiny insects to giant dinosaurs, the museum has eggs and nests of all shapes and sizes to discover. Can you find them all? Follow egg-themed clues to search for specimens throughout the museum, earn stamps as you go, then collect your goodie bag full of springtime treats. While supplies last.
Sponsors
Super Science Saturdays are sponsored by PA Cyber, Tender Care Learning Centers, a proud partner of Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh, and Discover Westmoreland.
From a sidewalk crack teeming with plant life to majestic birds of prey soaring over our three rivers, nature is everywhere in the Burgh! Examine how tech can help you look for wildlife high and low. Investigate the biodiversity of Pittsburgh and learn how organisms are thriving in and around the Steel City.
Sponsors
Super Science Saturdays are sponsored by PA Cyber, Tender Care Learning Centers, a proud partner of Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh, and Discover Westmoreland.
Museum scientists have been working hard all year, traveling near and far to conduct field research and contribute to the newest science! Follow your “Tales of the Field Passport” to meet participating scientists and claim a goodie bag of field work essentials like a notebook, pencil, and compass. Add your dream research destination to a map and see where other explorers want to travel. While supplies last.
Sponsors
Super Science Saturdays are sponsored by PA Cyber, Tender Care Learning Centers, a proud partner of Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh, and Discover Westmoreland, celebrating 250 years of Westmoreland County.
