Brian Crawford-Content Creator

18/10/2024

I hope you enjoy my conversation with Dale Vaughn about tomorrow's SpaceBurgh event in Market Square!

Dale Vaughn, founder of the community event SpaceBurgh which connects people to Pittsburgh's growing space industry, as well as the owner of space themed Space Bar, sits down with Brian Crawford to discuss the event, the bar, craft beer and hard hitting sci-fi questions.

05/06/2024

I'm thrilled to say that The New Pittsburgh Exposition is a sponsor of the Mattress Factory - Museum of Contemporary Art's Garden Party: Make/Believe this Friday!

We're thrilled to be a sponsor of the Factory - Museum of Contemporary Art's Garden Party: Make/Believe this Friday evening!

The Mattress Factory invites you to ditch the mask you wear every day and step into a spotlight on the characters, caricatures, and creatures that make us believe in make believe at the Garden Party: Make Believe, June 7th.

You can find the link right on our events page and in the comments.

28/05/2024

My thank you letter to the businesses and officials who lit PA teal!

Pittsburgh’s business community made an impact. Seeing these buildings light up gave people hope, helped people feel seen, made people feel accepted. One person posted on Facebook, “This is AMAZING!!!! Maybe next year we can get Philly and other cities/towns to do this. This brings tears to my e...

20/05/2024

I had a great time talking with Russ Beckett about the PA Tourette Syndrome Alliance Light your town Teal! campaign and how The Stone Bridge in Johnstown will be lighting up to help spread awareness for Tourette Syndrome!

On Tuesday, May 21st, The Stone Bridge in Johnstown will be lit up in teal for Tourette Syndrome Awareness Month. We found out more about Tourette’s and how it effects so many from Brian Crawford. Mr. Crawford is a volunteer with the PA ...

20/05/2024

Check out this cool POV video I created of the Butler Street Art District at the Millvale Music Festival!

17/04/2024

Fort Ligonier recently held a symposium on the Seven Years’ War which started right here in Southwestern Pennsylvania! Read more to see how it went and stop by Fort Ligonier and check out their museum and historic site!

Four presenters took what many of us know of as a regional conflict which we call the “French and Indian War” involving the British and French Empires, as well as several indigenous nations and confederacies, and opened our eyes to a wider world conflict.

25/03/2024

Check out this cool picture of the Pittsburgh Exposition building from a 1914 Pittsburgh Press article.

Click the link to read a cool letter from the old exposition to the new.

"Dear PGH Museums,

Congratulations on your name change and becoming the New Pittsburgh Exposition!"

Enjoy this fictional rendition of a letter penned to The New Pittsburgh Exposition from the original Pittsburgh Exposition of the late 1800s/early 1900s which comes from the creative mind of Victoria Sterling!

https://thenewpittsburghexposition.org/blog/dearpghmuseums

29/02/2024

I'm thrilled to announce that PGH Museums has undergone a transformation and is now The New Pittsburgh Exposition!

The rebranding carries on our traditions of promoting our region's culture, the new website gives it a fresh look, while also paying tribute to our past.

Please check it out and let me know what you think!

We'd like to reintroduce ourselves. PGH Museums is now The New Pittsburgh Exposition. Inspired by the Pittsburgh expositions of the late 1800’s and early 1900’s, these large events brought in exhibits from all across the country and attracted people from all over our region. It was like Pittsburgh’s own local version of an annual world’s fair. The expositions were held in a large hall where Point State Park is located today along the Allegheny River. These events had a wide reach with advertisements landing in papers across the region, even reaching into Ohio, and would bring in as many as ten thousand people a day to see the show.

Exposition Hall served many purposes after the days of the expositions. At different stages the building served as a music hall, a hockey arena, and eventually as a machine shop and garage for the city. The building was demolished in 1951 for the development of Point State Park. We hope to keep the history and spirit of the former Exposition Hall and the Western Pennsylvania Exposition Society (commonly called Pittsburgh Exposition) alive in our own way by adopting the name and continuing to share our regions art, museums, culture, exhibitions, and other events through our own modern digital channels (and beyond) today.

If you're wondering, our logo is a recreation of an old newspaper advertisement for the expo!

Check out our site, thenewpittsburghexposition.org and we hope you enjoy our fresh new look :)

Thanks to board member Veronica Jancuk for the leading the rebrand as well as designing and rebuilding the new site. 🖤