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About the Carnegie Museum of Natural History:
Dinosaur-wise, the centerpiece of the Carnegie Museum of Natural History is "Dinosaurs in Their Time," which opened to the public in 2007 after two years of planning and renovation. This exhibit of specimens ranging from Diplodocus to T. Rex places dinosaurs in the proper ecological and behavioral context, posed amidst contemporary plants and animals, and in the correct postures (according to the latest paleontological research). Like other natural history museums, the Carnegie also has plenty of exhibits devoted to prehistoric and contemporary wildlife.
Like many cultural institutions in Pittsburgh, the Carnegie Museum of Natural History was founded by the mega-industrialist Andrew Carnegie, who took an early interest in paleontology. Many of the dinosaurs in this museum (including specimens of Allosaurus, Apatosaurus and Stegosaurus) were retrieved by Carnegie's employees from the Uinta Mountains on the Colorado/Utah border. In fact, Carnegie held such a fearful monopoly over this area that, in 1915, President Woodrow Wilson decided to "nationalize" it as Dinosaur National Monument.
