Paul Visits Carnegie Museum of Natural History[PHOTOS]

We sojourned to Pittsburgh recently to celebrate my mother and fathers' 70th birthdays. The city where I grew up is rife with history. In the late 1800's, during the steel boom and the height of the Industrial Revolution,  Pittsburgh was the richest city in the world. Its most famous inhabitant, Andrew Carnegie, was once the richest man in the world and has endowed countless cities and towns with performance halls, libraries and museums. One of his most famous is right in his town, bordering the campuses of the University of Pittsburgh and Carnegie Mellon Universities. We gave ourselves about 4 hours to check it out and it wasn't nearly enough.

As I took my wife through, memories of elementary school trips to the museum came rushing back. The anticipation of coming face to face with the remains of T-Rex were enough to keep me up for nights before. As we strolled through the dinosaur exhibit, my awe for the display hadn't diminished. It was also very interesting to see that some of the remains that are in the museum came right from this area, possibly from our own Soapstone Natural Area.

I'm sure you don't randomly find yourself with extra time on your hands in the city of Pittsburgh, but if you ever do, the Carnegie Museum of Natural History is worth an afternoon.