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Oakland is where Dr. Jonas Salk developed
the polio vaccine, Dr. Thomas Starzl performed
the first liver transplant, Andy Warhol
spent his childhood days, where a man
known as “Mr. Rogers” instilled lessons of
self-confidence and compassion into generations
of young television viewers and
where the music of America’s great composer
Stephen Foster is preserved. Here,
you will find plenty of stimulation for intellectual
pursuits at cultural institutions such
as the Carnegie Museum of Art and Natural
History, Phipps Conservatory and Botanical
Gardens, Soldiers and Sailors National
Military Museum and the Miller Gallery of
Carnegie Mellon University to name a few.
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Top Travel Guides call Pittsburgh a hip destination Long considered the cultural center of Pittsburgh, Oakland is home to a variety of galleries and museums all within an easy walk from great shops and restaurants.
If you are looking for an evening of gripping drama in Oakland, The Carnegie Music Hall www.carnegiemuseums.org, the Pittsburgh Playhouse www.pointpark.edu, and the Stephen Foster Memorial www.pitt.edu/~amerimus/museum.htm offer a variety of theater performances throughout the year. While visiting the Stephen Foster Memorial, a must see is the one of a kind Center for American Music museum housing the world’s largest musical collection of Pittsburgh native Stephen Foster.
Pittsburgh Filmmakers is one of the largest and oldest independent media arts centers in the county. Founded in 1971 to provide media-making tools to artists, Pittsburgh Filmmakers serves everyone from emerging artisits to established artists to fellow non-profit organizations and students. Their Three Rivers Film Festival is the regions largest annual fim event. Pittsburgh Filmmakers (est. 1971) is a nonprofit corporation designed to encourage the creation and understanding of media for noncommerical artistic and literary purposes. To this end, Filmmakers offers a curriculum of courses in film, video, and photography to university and independent students in the Pittsburgh region. Filmmakers also exhibits the work of prominent photographers and filmmakers in its galleries, Melwood Screening Room, Regent Square Theater and Harris Theater.
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Art lovers must see the collections at the Carnegie Museums of Art and Natural History, one of the first museums built by the steel tycoon and native Pittsburgher Mr. Andrew Carnegie 
Architecture lovers, you can not miss the grand classical architecture styles lining Fifth Avenue and juxtaposed throughout Pitt’s campus. Breaking from the neo-classical tradition, the Cathedral of Learning, the world’s 2nd tallest tower of classrooms, brings back the beauty of Gothic architecture. Of course, do not miss the interior architecture and unique multi cultural classroom designs known as the Nationality Rooms www.pitt.edu/~natrooms. Located on the same grounds is the beautiful Heinz Chapel, the blending of the spiritual and the aesthetic wonderment www.heinzchapel.pitt. edu. CMU’s campus, designed by architect Henry Hornbostel,