What do the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday and the Carnegie Science Center have in common? The answer is Conservation Day.
Back for a fifth year, this environmentally-themed celebration offers free admission, parking, Omnimax film and a live theater show to all science center visitors on Monday, Jan. 19 – Martin Luther King Jr. Day.
“Martin Luther King Day is a great time to focus on community,” Co-Director of the Carnegie Science Center Ann Metzger said.
She also said the day is a break for the Pittsburgh region midway through January.
“It’s an opportunity to get out of the house in the middle of winter on a day when most people are either off work or off school and to not really have to spend any money to come on site and just have a great time and learn a lot as well,” Ann Metzger, co-director of the Carnegie Science Center, said.
This year’s festivities include a production called “Home Makeover: Green Edition,” which educates visitors on how they can conserve energy and natural resources in their homes, along with a nature film titled “Born to be Wild.”
Metzger said the event doesn’t change much from year to year, but visitors can always expect a different experience.
“We always are refreshing exhibitions at the science center,” she said. “So, the exact constellation of exhibits that we have this year would not be the same as last year’s.”
About 5,000 people attend the event each year.
“Those are fun days for our staff to have that many visitors and to see the crowds really enjoying their time here,” she said. “So we always like to have lots of visitors here at the science center.”
The science center will be open 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Conservation Day is funded by Duquesne Light.
