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We have made several large, community projects in our workshop space before. Visitors have helped to create cardboard cities, newspaper sculptures and forts. For our recent “Free Admission” day at the Museum (and to celebrate the beginning of summer) our workshop was transformed into an underwater aquarium. Visitors spent the next couple of days filling the aquarium with fish, sea turtles, underwater cars

A wedding is a great excuse to make stuff. In the case of my recent matrimony there were a lot of hand made things. My wife and I (along with some other helpers) spent the last year making decorations, invitations and other essential wedding materials. It started off with the creation of our “save the date” announcements. These went through a couple of prototyping stages before we settled on a final produ

It is summer and that means that we are able to move some of our MAKESHOP activities outside. Last year we had a bike-cart that some of the staff would take out to the local parks to do small activities with the community. This year we got the opportunity to provide an outdoor activity for a weekend event Buhl Park in front of the Museum. I recently discovered a water rocket launching kit in our basement storage. We

We receive a lot of donations at MAKESHOP from Museum staff as well as visitors.  Donations are always welcome.  Below is a list of the materials that we are typically looking for.  If you have a material or tool not on this list that you’d like to donate, please email: makeshop@pittsburghkids.org   Materials Needed fabric/ clothing sewing needles thread buttons yarn knitting needles/ crochet hooks small w

More than 120 adults showed up to drink, solder, make wreaths, create light-up cards and hang out at MAKEnight on December 12! Join us for the next MAKEnight on February 6, 2014, and join our 21+ event mailing list to get updates when tickets go on sale. Have ideas or suggestions about activities and things we should do for future events? Leave a comment, or send us an email!