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Palace of Culture: Andrew Carnegie's Museums and Library in Pittsburgh

By Robert J , Carnegie , Andrew;Gangewere

Book information

Publisher
University of Pittsburgh Press
Year
2014
ISBN
9780822943976, 0822943972, 9780822979692
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
43 MB (45110067 bytes)
Pages
332 s. : illustrations\0
Time added
2020-07-26 19:24:52
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Description

Andrew Carnegie is remembered as one of the world's great philanthropists. As a boy, he witnessed the benevolence of a businessman who lent his personal book collection to laborer's apprentices. That early experience inspired Carnegie to create the "Free to the People" Carnegie Library in 1895 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. In 1896, he founded the Carnegie Institute, which included a music hall, art museum, and science museum. Carnegie deeply believed that education and culture could lift up the common man and should not be the sole province of the wealthy. Today, his Pittsburgh cultural institution encompasses a library, music hall, natural history museum, art museum, science center, the Andy Warhol Museum, and the Carnegie International art exhibition...

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