The Andy Warhol Museum

 The Andy Warhol Museum

The Andy Warhol Museum is located on the North Shore of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in the United States. It is North America's largest museum devoted to a single artist. The museum houses a large permanent collection of Andy Warhol's art and archives. The Andy Warhol Museum is one of Pittsburgh's four Carnegie Museums and is a collaborative project of the Carnegie Institute, the Dia Art Foundation, and The Andy Warhol Foundation for the

 Visual Arts (AWFVA). In 2010, Andy Warhol held a self-portrait exhibition. The museum is housed in a seven-story, 88,000-square-foot (8,200-square-meter) structure. The museum's 17 galleries house 900 paintings, nearly 2,000 works on paper, over 1,000 published unique prints, and 77 sculptures. 4,000 photographs and over 4,350 films and videotapes by Andy Warhol Its most recent operating budget was $6.1 million in 2010. Since 1996, the museum has sponsored 56 travelling exhibits that have attracted nearly nine million visitors in 153 venues worldwide, in addition to its Pittsburgh location.

History

The museum's plans were announced in October 1989, approximately 212 years after Warhol's death. The AWFVA and the Dia Art Foundation donated works worth an estimated $80 million to the newly announced museum at the time of the announcement. In 1993, Thomas N. Armstrong III, the Whitney Museum of American Art's director from 1974 to 1990, was named the museum's first director.  Matt Wrbican joined the museum's staff before it opened, inventorying Warhol's belongings in New York, and has since become the archivist and expert on Warhol's work. The 88,000-square-foot (8,200 m2) industrial warehouse and its extensive renovations had cost about $12 million by 1993, and the AWFVA had donated over 1,000 of them.Warhol's works are worth more than $55 million, and the donation has grown to include approximately 3,000 works. The museum received approximately 25,000 visitors during its opening weekend on May 13-14, 1994. Armstrong, the museum's founding director, resigned nine months after it opened; at the time of his resignation, the museum had "tense relations" with the AWFVA and the Carnegie Institute, its financial backer, though no one involved would say whether that friction played a role in Armstrong's resignation. The AWFVA donated all Warhol film and video copyrights to the museum on November 1, 1997. In 2013, it was announced that an annex to the main Pittsburgh facility would be built in Manhattan, New York City, in the Essex Crossing development on the Lower East Side. The main Pittsburgh museum's annex was set to open in 2017.  However, the museum announced in March 2015 that it would no longer be opening the New York annex. In October 2019, it was reported that an audio tape of previously unknown music by Lou Reed, based on Warhol's 1975 book "The Philosophy of Andy Warhol: From A to B and Back Again," had been discovered in an archive at the Pittsburgh Museum of Art. In 2022, the museum announced a $60 million expansion called The 'Pop District,' which will span six blocks in Pittsburgh, PA. The plan is to build a music venue, a social media studio called Warhol Creative, and more public art exhibit spaces.  The project is expected to take ten years and is primarily funded by local foundations.

Hours

Monday 10am -5pm

Tuesday

Closed \s Wednesday 10am -5pm \s→ Today,Thursday 10am -5pm

Friday 10am -10pm

Saturday 10am -5pm

Sunday 10am -5pm

Special Hours and Closures

Thanksgiving Day is November 24th.

Christmas Day is December 25th.

January 1 is a New Year's Day holiday.

Closed for Easter on April 9th.