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When Andrew Carnegie envisioned a museum collection consisting of the "Old Masters of tomorrow", Carnegie Museum of Art became, arguably, the first museum of modern art in the United States. Founded in 1895, today it continues Carnegie's love of contemporary art by staging the Carnegie International every few years. Carnegie Museum of Art offers a collection of contemporary art that includes painting, sculpture, drawing, installation, performance, new media, film, and video works. Other collections of note include works of American art from the late nineteenth century, French Impressionist and Post-Impressionist paintings, and European and American decorative arts from the late seventeenth century to the present. The museum鈥檚 Heinz Architectural Center, established in 1993, is one of a handful of architectural departments within a museum in the country and is dedicated to the collection, study, and exhibition of architectural drawings and models. THE BUILDINGS Carnegie Institute鈥檚 original Renaissance-style building, designed by Longfellow, Alden and Harlow between 1893 and 1895, contained a library, music hall, and galleries for art and natural history. In 1907 a major addition by Alden and Harlow provided new quarters for the Department of Fine Arts and the Department of the Museum, now Carnegie Museum of Art and Carnegie Museum of Natural History respectively. Andrew Carnegie鈥檚 鈥減alace of culture鈥� at this time extended to nearly five acres. The expansion provided art galleries and halls for exhibiting casts of sculpture and architectural elements, as well as an opulent music hall foyer that rises 45 feet to an elaborate carved and gilded baroque ceiling atop colossal columns of green Tinos marble from Greece. The 1974 addition of the Sarah Scaife Gallery, designed by Edward Larrabee Barnes, tripled the exhibition space in the Museum of Art. A number of preexisting galleries were renovated in 1974 for special exhibitions (Heinz Galleries) and decorative arts (Ailsa Mellon Bruce Galleries). The three-story Heinz Architectural Center, designed by Cicognani Kalla Architects, was built within a former temporary exhibition gallery and houses five changing exhibition galleries, a study room, collection storage facilities, and curatorial offices for the architecture department. THE COLLECTION: In 1896 Carnegie initiated the Carnegie International, a series of exhibitions of contemporary art from around the world that continues to this day, and proposed that the museum's paintings collection be formed through purchases from this series. Early acquisitions of works by such artists as Winslow Homer, James McNeill Whistler, and Camille Pissarro laid the foundation for the museum鈥檚 distinguished collection. The Hall of Architecture, with its collection of more than 140 plaster casts of architectural masterpieces from the past, opened in 1907. At that time, collections of casts were numerous in both Europe and the United States. Pittsburgh's architectural cast collection is distinguished for having remained essentially intact in the skylit space designed especially for it, Architecture Hall, which was itself inspired by the Mausoleum at Halicarnassus. Today it is one of the three largest architectural cast courts remaining in the world and the largest one in North America. Another of the museum鈥檚 grand halls, the Hall of Sculpture, is crafted of Pentelic marble from the same Greek quarries that supplied the stone for the Parthenon. Adorned with casts from the classical era, the two-story columned hall replicates the interior of the Temple of Athena on the Acropolis in Athens. A frieze made from a cast of the Parthenon鈥檚 sculptural frieze surrounds the upper walls. Because of the room鈥檚 use for public functions, the museum moved the sculpture casts that at one time were positioned on the ground floor to the adjoining Hall of Architecture. Contemporary German artist Lothar Baumgarten installed The Tongue of the Cherokee on the Hall of Sculpture鈥檚 ceiling skylight as part of the 1988 Carnegie International exhibition. In 1994 the museum completed a reinstallation of its pre-1945 American and European fine and decorative arts that combines them in a single chronological sequence. In 2003 the Scaife Galleries, home for many of the paintings, sculptures, works on paper, and decorative arts in the museum's collection, reopened after a yearlong renovation. Improvements include the replacement of skylights, addition of new climate control systems, and an infrastructure to support wireless technology. The museum also now displays about 70% more art than before the renovation. There is a larger works on paper gallery located at the entrance to the galleries, and the contemporary art galleries incorporate decorative arts and works on paper along with paintings, sculpture, and film and video pieces. Some of the galleries now feature floor-to-ceiling, salon-style installations of the artwork. Resource areas and comfortable seating have also been integrated into the space, along with educational enhancements. In 2001 the museum acquired the archive of African-American photographer Charles "Teenie" Harris (1908-1998), consisting of approximately 80,000 photographic negatives spanning from the 1930s to the 1970s. Nearly 40,000 of these images have been catalogued and digitized and are available online via the Carnegie Museum of Art collections search. PUBLIC PROGRAMMING: The museum鈥檚 education department presents an exciting array of classes, tours, lectures and special events for adults, children, students, and teachers. Visitors partake in art-making activities in the galleries, join docent-guided tours, and participate in studio and art-appreciation classes. Lectures and symposia present the ideas of scholars, artists, and critics. The museum was selected as one of the country鈥檚 top five art museums for families and children by Child Magazine in 2006.