Carnegie Museum of Art

The premier museum in the region, Carnegie Museum of Art boasts a distinguished collection of American art from the mid-nineteenth-century to the present, French Impressionist and Post-Impressionist paintings, and late twentieth-century works, including film and video in its collection. Other collections of note include European and American decorative arts from the late seventeenth-century to the present. The Heinz Architectural Center, opened in 1993, is dedicated to the collection, study, and exhibition of architectural drawings and models. ( www.cmoa.org )