Take a closer look at the award-winning "Steel Valley Visions" with guest experts from @riversofsteel at this talk and happy hour.
👀 A Closer Look: Steel Valley Visions
🗓️ May 6 (3-4:30pm)
🍸 Cocktails & light bites
Learn about the people, places, and stories that have shaped our region’s steel industry with Ron Baraff and Barney Terrell of Rivers of Steel in a conversation moderated by Dr. Erica Nuckles, the Museum's Director of Learning, Engagement & Partnerships at the Museum.
2 - Otto August Kuhler, "Waterstreet Wharf, Pittsburgh," 1923. Oil on canvas. Collection of Bruce and Sheryl K. Wolf,
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
3 - Emil Bott, "Pittsburgh, PA," 1851.
Lithograph on paper. Museum purchase
4 - Francis Komperda, "Portrait of Mike Kessel," around 1938–40. Oil on canvas. Gift of the Thomas Lynch Fund
5 - Aaron Henry Gorson, "Industrial Scene, Pittsburgh," 1928. Oil on canvas mounted to Masonite. Gift in memory of Roy C. McKenna
6 - John Kane, "Hills and Rivers, Steamboat at Sleepy Hollow," 1929.
Oil on canvas. Gift of the Estate of Richard M. Scaife
Come and see how Pittsburgh built the world live in all new Market Square through Saturday night!
We’ll be stamping keychains live all day Friday and Saturday and pouring aluminum on Saturday.
They don’t call us the steel city for nothing!
@artifactmetalworks@macabre_metal@eleanorjdavidson@_f.c.o.a._
Opening This Friday!
Join us for the opening reception of Paintable Pittsburgh: The Art of Henry Koerner at the Bost Building in Homestead.
🗓 Friday, April 24
🕕 6–8 PM
📍 Bost Building, 623 E 8th Ave, Homestead
🎟 Free & open to the public
This retrospective honors Henry Koerner (1915–1995)—a Vienna-born Jewish artist, WWII veteran, and longtime Pittsburgh resident whose work captured the city’s neighborhoods, architecture, and people with remarkable warmth and intimacy. From painting 46 Time magazine covers from life to later watercolors and oils of Pittsburgh streetscapes, Koerner made this city his lifelong subject.
Come celebrate the opening, meet fellow art and history lovers, and experience a Pittsburgh story told through paint.
On view April 24–July 31, 2026.
More details at the link in bio!
📸: Kenneth Love
Highlights from the 45th annual Hammer In Festival at the W. A. Young & Sons Machine Shop and Foundry.
We’re already looking forward to next year! #riversofsteel #industrialheritage #metalarts #heritagetourism
When was the last time your kid watched molten metal pour into a mold and couldn't stop asking questions? 🤔✨
The Hammer-In Festival is built for curious minds of every age. Kids and adults alike can explore hands-on activities, watch live coppersmithing and aluminum casting, and wander through a working machine shop frozen in time.
It's the kind of Saturday that turns into a story they'll tell for years.
Free admission
This Saturday, April 18
9am–4pm
Rices Landing
#FamilyFriendly #KidsActivities #GreeneCounty #ThingsToDoPittsburgh
Iron. Fire. A hammer. And a craftsperson who knows exactly what to do with all three. ⚒️
At the Hammer-In Festival, blacksmiths from across the region demonstrate their craft all day long — forging hot steel, shaping metal with precision, creating objects that will last a lifetime.
This is a front-row seat to one of the world's oldest trades, very much alive.
This Saturday, April 18.
Free.
All ages.
9am–4pm.
Most museums put history behind glass. This one puts it in motion.
The W.A. Young & Sons Foundry & Machine Shop is a National Historic Landmark — one of the most intact early 20th-century industrial sites in the country. When it closed, everything was left exactly as it was: tools on the benches, machines ready to run.
This Saturday, the doors open. The line shafts come alive. Come see what that looks like.
It's the 45th annual Hammer-In Festival, and it could not be a better reason for a day trip to Greene County.
Free admission · April 18 · 9am–4pm · Rices Landing, PA
#NationalHistoricLandmark #WAYoung #LivingHistory #MadeInAmerica
The countdown begins. 🔨
This Saturday, the fires light, the line shafts hum, and the Hammer-In Festival returns to the W.A. Young & Sons Machine Shop in Rices Landing.
45 years of sparks, steel, and community — and you're invited.
Admission is FREE.
Doors open at 9am.
Saturday, April 18.
Mark your calendar and stay tuned — we'll be counting down all week with reasons you won't want to miss this!
#HammerInFestival #GreeneCounty #BlacksmithFestival #RiversOfSteel
Join us April 16 for Blacksmithing Basics: Custom Cuffs at the Carrie Blast Furnaces. In just 3 hours, you'll learn to shape hot steel and leave with a cuff bracelet you made yourself.
No experience needed. Only 5 spots available.
🎟️ $90 | Link in bio to grab your ticket before they're gone.
Amazing time in Pittsburgh yesterday at Carrie Furnaces National Historic Landmark for their 2026 Intercollegiate Iron Pour. Stunningly sunny late March weather plus cast iron flowing extra hot equaled teamwork making the dreamwork alongside the next generation of hot metal enthusiasts ❤️🔥🔥❤️🔥
#metal #fire #castiron #riversofsteel #pittsburgh
