Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh is thrilled to announce that it placed second in the 2024 USA Today 10Best Reader’s Choice Contest for Best Children’s Museum.
“We’re so honored and grateful to have support from our members, visitors, funders, and community, who recognize that we are a top destination for kids and families to explore play and hands on learning,” said Max Pipman, Senior Director of Communications for Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh. “Our entire team is focused on putting together exhibits, programs, workshops, and more that have a positive impact on kids and families.”
This is the fifth consecutive year for Children’s Museum to be honored in the USA Today 10Best Reader’s Choice Contest. The Museum maintained its high ranking after placing second last year and is grateful to be acknowledged for their innovative and inclusive work once again as one of the leading children’s museums in the country.
Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh was selected to participate by a nationally recognized panel of family travel experts for its engaging, interactive experiences. USA Today readers and museum visitors from across the country were then encouraged to choose their top ten favorites from the list through four weeks of online voting.
You can see the list of the 2024 10 best children’s museums at https://10best.usatoday.com/awards/travel/best-childrens-museum-2024/.
Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh is the nation’s largest cultural campus for kids, spanning two buildings, and a public park. The Museum’s neighboring building, MuseumLab, is the next-door location where kids 10 and older can have cutting-edge lessons in art, making and STEM and is included with their admission to the Museum. The Museum sees more than 300,000 visitors annually and includes interactive and engaging exhibits along with regularly rotating programs.
Visitors can explore the Museum’s latest exhibit Rube Goldberg™: The World of Hilarious Invention!, inspired by the chain-reaction contraptions of Pulitzer Prize winning humorist and inventor Rube Goldberg. Build, activate and modify machines that use everyday objects to do simple tasks in the most overcomplicated, inefficient and hilarious ways possible.
The Museum is grateful to its dedicated supporters, partners, funders, and community members for helping to achieve this award so they can continue inspiring joy, creativity, curiosity and kindness for all learners.
