Meet Leslie Przybylek, lead curator for the new American Spirits: The Rise and Fall of Prohibition exhibition, on display beginning Saturday, Feb. 10. Leslie has been hard at work bringing…

  Do you relish the idea of seeing many pickle artifacts in one place? Look no further than the Heinz History Center, home to 160-year-old pickles and the best place…

  Don’t forget to tag your social media photos with #heinzhistorycenter so that we can see what your favorite photo spots at the History Center are! The History Center’s Heinz…

  It’s Halloween, and there is no better day to share some of the History Center’s spookiest artifacts. Gaines Funeral Home hearse, Cadillac, 1941. Partial gift of Barbara and Frank…

  The Heinz History Center’s African American Program is dedicated to the preservation, dissemination, and interpretation of the life, history, and culture of Africans and African Americans in Western Pennsylvania.…

Have you ever wondered what the History Center is like after the visitors leave? Recently, nearly 150 Girl Scouts and their chaperones discovered first hand at the Night at the History…

Bruno Calabro and his mother, Agostina, in May 1943, only days before Agostina’s death. Bruno was on his way from Washington, Pa. to an Army base when he received the…

Take a moment and think back to your childhood. What was the one toy you desperately wanted but never received? Maybe you remember flipping through a catalog and circling it…

Pittsburgh Woolslair students reviewing the concepts their classmates shared from a historical empathy activity imagining life without electricity and before reliable train transit. Monique displaying the attribute she identified in…

Are you considering making a year-end donation to the Senator John Heinz History Center or have you supported us throughout the year? Thank you! Donors like YOU make it possible…