Carnegie Museum of Art

Today we took a 1.5 mile walk to Oakland to visit the Carnegie Art Museum. The art museum includes art from the impressionist and post-impressionist period and European and American decorative arts from the late seventeenth century to the present. The Hall of Architecture contains the largest collection of plaster casts of architectural masterpieces in America and one of the three largest in the world. There are replicas of the venus di milo, the winged victory, discus thrower among others. The marble Hall of Sculpture replicates the interior of the Parthenon. We spent a couple of hours wandering around the museum and then moseyed back home to Shadyside. We will probably be visiting again through the year since we have unlimited trips for the year with our "my museums" pass.