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Use museum specimens in your classroom

Scheduling
Contact Patrick McShea at
(412) 622-3292 or McSheaP@CarnegieMNH.org to obtain a registration form or to arrange a loan.

Fee
The fee for a single two-week loan (which might include several items) is $50. For school buildings with enrollments under 400, payment of a $150 fee grants unlimited borrowing privileges to all faculty for a full year. For buildings with a larger student body, the annual registration fee is $200.

Enhance your curriculum by borrowing exhibit-related materials from the Educational Loan Collection. This outreach program provides teachers with unique objects, background information, activities, and lesson plans. In an effort to help lower elementary students build literacy skills, many topical boxes contain multiple copies of relevant children’s literature.

What's Available?
Click here to download the full loan program catalog (Adobe PDF).

Borrowing Procedures
Loans are picked up near the building’s Portal Entrance accessed from Carnegie Museums’ parking lot. Pick up and return hours are between 7 a.m.–7 p.m. daily. Specific directions will be emailed upon request.

Many teachers arrange for parents to share the task of loan pick-up and return. Several school districts utilize district vans for this purpose.


Available Materials

Thematic Loan Kits
Kits generally contain specimens, artifacts or replicas, and related audio-visual and printed materials.
Click here to download the full Loan Collection catalog (Adobe PDF).

  • Archaeology: Tools and Technology
  • Desert Wildlife
  • Dinosaurs: Mesozoic Marvels
  • Gifts from the Sea: Native Northwest Coast Fishing
  • The Hopi
  • The Inuit: Past and Present
  • Inuit Games
  • Life in Ancient Egypt: Scribes and Farmers
  • The Monongahela: Prehistoric Pennsylvanians
  • Pawprints (mammal tracks)
  • Pennsylvania Botany
  • Pennsylvania's Endangered Species
  • People of the Plains
  • Rock and Mineral Identification
  • Tropical Forest Wildlife

Topical Boxes
Topical Boxes are groups of specimens or artifacts packaged as a single unit.

  • African Artifacts
  • Bats
  • Bird Beaks and Feet
  • Bird Eggs
  • Bird Flight
  • Bird Nests
  • Bird Skulls
  • Bird Song
  • Bird Study Skins
  • Coral
  • Freshwater Mussels
  • Fossils
  • Horns and Antlers
  • Mammal Bones
  • Mammal Pelts
  • Mammal Study Skins
  • Mammal Skulls
  • Ocean Life
  • Owls
  • Pittsburgh Rocks
  • Poisonous Plants
  • Rocks and Minerals
  • Sea Stars
  • Sea Turtles
  • Sharks
  • Taxidermy
  • Textures in Nature
  • Volcanic Rocks
  • Whales
Animal Specimen Cases
These portable display cases house individual animals or groupings.
  • Amphibians
  • Birds
  • Fish
  • Insects
  • Mammals
  • Mollusks and other Invertebrates
  • Reptiles
 
     
 

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