Kamin Science Center (Re)Launch

Saturday, 2025 September 13

On 2024 January 20, Pittsburgh philanthropists Daniel G. and Carole L. Kamin announced the amazing gift of $65 million to the then-Carengie Science Center. As a child, Daniel Kamin had been a regular visitor to The Buhl Planetarium and Institute of Popular Science, the predecessor to The Carnegie Science Center. In fact, young Daniel Kamin built his first telescope at the Amateur Astronomers Workshop on the Lower Level of Buhl Planetarium.

The public (re)launch of The Carnegie Science Center as the Daniel G. and Carole L. Kamin Science Center occurred on Saturday, 2025 September 13 with a free-of-charge admission day for the general public.

Daniel & Carole Kamin Celebrate Presentation of
$65 Million Donation to Science Center
2024 January 20

Photograph *** Photo Caption

Given to visitors on the Kamin Science Center (re)launch day ---

Wristband (non-Science Center member)

Stylized Map of Kamin Science Center -

Page 1: Image 1 * Image 2 *** Page 2: Image 1 * Image 2

Photographs of Front of Kamin Science Center

Day-Time Views ---

Image 1 *** Image 2 *** Image 3 *** Image 4

From Elevated Allegheny Station, Pittsburgh Regional Transit / Port Authority of Allegheny County ---

From Platform Level *** From Mezzanine Level

. Night-Time Views -
- From Platform Level: Image 1 * Image 2 *** From Mezzanine Level

Daniel Kamin Telescope Exhibit

Daniel Kamin, at the age of 13 in 1955, built his own reflector telescope in the Amateur Astronomers Workshop on the Lower Level of the original Buhl Planetarium and Institute of Popular Science. Using this telescope, the young Dan Kamin took a photograph of the Moon in March of 1957. Located on the first floor of the Kamin Science Center, across from the Admissions Desk, is an exhibit displaying this historic telescope and the photograph of the Moon.

Historic Daniel Kamin Telescope

Telescope Exhibit Caption

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1957 Telescopic Photograph of Earth's Moon

Image 1 *** Image 2 *** Image 3 *** Moon Photo Caption

Other Exhibit Captions

Photograph of "Jake", Historic Zeiss Mark II Planetarium Projector
of the original Buhl Planetarium and Institute of Popular Science /
Buhl Science Center
Now Displayed in Kamin Science Center Robert Pierce Atrium Gallery,
as part of SpacePlace Exhibit
More photos & info about "Jake"

Other New Kamin Science Center Exhibits

New Lobby Video Wall: Image 1 *** Image 2 (Partial View of Planet Jupiter)

PNC Bank-sponsored, Chip Granassi-owned Race Car
(Preview of Future Exhibit, the "Science of Speed")

More Kamin Science Center Photographs

Official Internet Web-Site of Kamin Science Center

Return to History of The Buhl Planetarium and Institute of Popular Science, Pittsburgh

Kamin Science Center (Re)Launch
Saturday, 2025 September 13

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