The Frick Pittsburgh Museums & Gardens

What's not to love? You get an old-timey car and carriage musuem, an art gallery with some great Italian Renaissance and 18th century French pieces, plus a greenhouse, all for the cost of nothing. You only pay to visit the mansion on campus.

While in Pittsburgh PA on Sunday June 8th, Tony Vanoy and I went to the Frick Botanical Gardens. The Art Museum is temporarily closed! It is Free to walk around the grounds and to enjoy the Botanical Gardens. It is rather small but extremely lovely! I took a lot of photos! Tony even enjoyed the beauty of the place! We also enjoyed the Car & Carriage Museum too

We loved visiting. As a plant lover, the green house was great. The original carriages and cars were super interesting. The art left something to be desired.

Small collection of art pieces from Scandinavian artists but some are very good to see them in person. I wish they make the ticket for purchase easier on site in the art building instead of going to website and giving them all my personal information and signed up for the one time visit. It took about extra 10 mins to do it on site.

I hope to leave as scathing of a review as possible because I had to watch the people at the front desk be rude and demeaning to my parents. Over the holidays my mother bought the family tickets for a guided tour for the Frick house online. We’re a large group (9+ people), and the website caps ticket purchases at 8. No biggie, we’ll try to purchase a single ticket at the door. HA! You’d think! The miserable souls at the front desk acted as if this request was an affront to god himself. I’ve worked in museums for the past 5 years and have never seen such pushback and confrontational behavior for such a blasé request. It made my blood absolutely boil watching these losers treat someone with such disdain over a question like that, it was totally out of line. As a sidebar: In my professional career I have only ever heard nasty things about the work culture, staff, and management. This was my first time at the Frick, and from my experience, I believe all the rumors :) side-side bar: My group’s guide was exceptional. I had to leave at least a star to post a review, so pretend that the star is for him.

It is a beautiful place. Love the auto museum. Tea was lovely. Enjoyed the grounds. Lovely place to walk, relax and be at peace .

We came here on a Sunday in January for the Winterfest event while in Pittsburgh for the weekend. I found out about the event through Facebook. It was a free event but there was a $5 charge to tour the first floor of the mansion. There are several buildings in the property including the building with artwork, a carriage house, a cafe and visitors center, greenhouse and mansion. It was an informative tour through the artwork and carriage house. There were several knowledgeable docents in the mansion and they all were friendly and informative. Parking was on-site and the lot was pretty full. It looked like you could park on the street as well. There are tickets in normal days that you can purchase in the visitors center - I’m not totally sure what is free and what is paid during normal non-event hours. I enjoyed the mansion tour and would have liked to see more of the house but they were only doing the first floor for this event. Cool place to check out when in the area and looking for something to do.

An outstanding tour of the Clayton home delivered an unvarnished look at 1892, the Gilded Age, Frick, and company. Thank you, docent Eden. The carriage and car collection was fun for this non-enthusiast. The art museum's permanent collection wasn't particularly notable but the Scandinavian visiting collection was terrific.

Fantastic holiday tour experience in this historic Pittsburgh mansion! The home is all decorated for the holidays, and the tour guides really know the details of what it was like to celebrate the season there. After the home tour, we enjoyed the Scandinavian Design exhibition at the Art Museum. Can't wait to see the Impressionism exhibition in 2026!

It's a wonderful place to get lost in the city. Make sure you see the car and carriage exhibit. You will travel back in time and it's AMAZING!

We booked a tour of Clayton, the Frick family's guilded age home as it seemingly is the only remaining "mansion" dating from the late 19th century. Our guide offered good information on the era and on Henry Clay Frick, one of the preeminent industrialists of his age. The house itself is nice but understated in its elegance. Most of the important original artwork that was originally displaced in the house is now in the Frick museum in New York. We also toured the carriage and automobile collection which featured several cars built around Pittsburgh which made the display worth seeing. Then we toured the art Museum which features a lovely collection of renaissance Italian art which was collected by H C Frick's daughter Helen Clay Frick. We were disappointed that the Scandinavian art show started the day after our visit. Our bad timing. The Frick Pittsburgh is worth a visit and the tour and collections take about three hours to see.

For a little gallery, this museum punches well above its weight. The Scandinavian Home exhibit of a private collection was an excellent way to drip your toe in Nordic Countries' fjord of art. Next up (opening February 2026) will be an exhibit including works showcasing Pittsburgh's steel industry, Lewis Hine Pictures America. But I'll be back before then to enjoy WinterFest. We didn't have the chance to stop by the cafe, greenhouse, carriage museum, Clayton House, and not even the welcoming Visitor's Center. But I did get to enjoy the newly repaved parking lot with slightly wider spots. This institution's attention to the small details and listening to patrons is unmatched. It's how they keep this local member returning multiple times a year.

What a beautiful way to spend a cool August Saturday morning exploring the grounds and museums. Loved the Catching Sunbeams exhibit and the beautiful flowers in the greenhouse. The car and carriage museum does a great job sharing some of the innovation in transportation. The art museum is spacious and offers lots to reflect on.

Such an iconic Pittsburgh venue. The current draw to the Frick is the current art exhibit slated to close 7/14 -- Vermeer, Monet, Rembrandt -- a collection from both the NYC and Pittsburgh collection. It was well worth the visit. To see both Henry Clay Frick and Helen Frick pieces they collected on view. Then, it was a pretty day, so I walked the grounds and entered the Greenhouse. So many healthy green plants and in bloom. Then I had lunch at the Cafe, a delightful experience and its own review. Oh, and the gift shop. Let's not forget the gift shop. A few purchases made for some cards. They have a nice selection of jewelry, cards, books.

Frick park is beautifully green and lucious. I have gone for walks here three times while visiting from Denver, Denver does not get this selection of greens. I have seen deer both fawn and doe. We take the dogs for a walk. There is a community garden and I love that. There are small hikes and longer steeper hikes. On this last visit, I came upon a wall of honeysuckle. I picked one and sucked it just as I did as a child. Frick Park is a great place to lose yourself.

A must stop for any history or art buff. Not only one of the most impressive private art collections known, but also an informative and honest space dedicated to helping us understand one of country's most famous and controversial industrialists. If you live within or have ever visited Pittsburgh and have a desire to understand one of its biggest movers and shakers during Pittsburgh's golden age, these exhibits greatly lend to that. It's far beyond what you can gain from any book or Wikipedia page. The car and carriage museum is not to be missed, either, especially if you're automotively inclined. The staff here are incredibly knowledgeable and nice - you can tell they truly care for the place.

The art museum and part of the car garage a free, but if you'd like to tour the Frick House (Clayton) it was pretty cheap and there was a second part of the car garage that had a paid exhibit. It's also a very nice property to stroll around. The house tour is a high recommend and can be scheduled in advance, but I don't think most the tours sell out. Because the house was last owned by Frick's daughter before being opened to the public, everything inside is original, and we got to learn more about the objects and the inhabitants. There was a lot of good information about the couple, their deceased daughter, their living children, their servants, and the costs of their treasures vs. a regular person's salary. A scene in the bedroom is staged as if it's right after Frick's assassination attempt, so there was good information on the worker's strike and how Frick handled it. The house has a lot of beautiful and original objects that the tour guide gave a lot of information for. No pics allowed inside unfortunately. The car garage had cool old cars, but I don't think any of them were personally owned by Frick but were time period appropriate. The art part was a lot smaller than I expected and does pale in comparison to the one in NYC. This doesn't really take more than a half hour to get through, and only part of the gallery was for Frick's collection and there was some focus on new/contemporary art instead. There is a greenhouse that's nice to walk through. The visitor's center had a great seating area and a cafe. The gift shop was pretty disappointing and more local artists instead of Frick-branded souvenirs. The parking is plentiful. Overall, it was a few hours well-spent to learn more about a steel magnate that helped to shape Pittsburgh.

Don't spend your money on the ultra depressing woke make you feel bad about not working in a factory house tour. We are are from the West Coast and were visiting (Aug 25) in hopes of a lovely afternoon escaping the ills of the world. Lovely grounds, the cafe was expensive but delicious, and we took the house tour hoping to see a home and learn about daily life of both the residents, staff, and the craftsmen who built the house. Instead we got a dark, depressing history of the robber barons of the age. The tour guide made sure to emphasize all the ills of turn of the century factories with dismal pictures interspersed around the house. Every room included factoids about how poor people were in comparison to the rich people who lived in the house. We are just "average Joes" needing an escape from tarrifs, politics, eggs that cost a fortune. We didn't pay to hear that the table-wear cost an average factory worker's years wages and the each wine glass could have fed a family of four for a month. Nobody from the tour was smiling when we walked out.

Lovely museum. Rather small collections includes several by the masters. Much of the museum and grounds is free, and there's a special collection for around $25. Easy parking. We enjoyed a 90min visit, and the special exhibit was very nice, but we felt that the admission price was high.

The guided tour of Henry Clayton's home was informative and very entertaining. The 75 minute guided tour is worth the price. And park grounds include large glass greenhouse car museum, a nice café restaurant a lot of outside seating any museum to open in August after renovations. We had a great time there.

We came to specifically check out the carriage museum, which is free. It has a nice selection of 100+ year old cars and even older horse drawn carriages. They're all in a good state of repair and are mostly brands not commonly seen. The grounds and green house are also nice and parking is free too. They also have an art museum and mansion tour that is not free. I believe the art work, or some of it, rotates from the Frick in NYC. I plan to return in a few weeks for that. Also across the street from the parking entrance is Frick Park.

I returned a week later to tour the house (Clayton). It was a great tour, with much of the focus giving a lot of light to the early 20th c. history of PGH and the tycoons who lived here (Frick, Carnegie, and Mellon, of course!). It is very neat to see all of the period items displayed in the house and the tour guide was exceptionally knowledgeable. I also returned to the gift shop and bought more great things. They feature a lot of items from local and independent artists, so I like that you can support the museum, the artists, and walk away with some very unique items for yourself that you probably won't find elsewhere. This is one of the best gift shops I have seen in the city.

I had a great time at the Frick Art and Historical Center. I am new to Pittsburgh and kept seeing the Frick on guides, so I thought I'd give it a go. The grounds are open for free and are stunning. Sort of like a park, but so quiet and calm. This would be a great place to bring a picnic or a book. The grounds wind through the properties, which contain plaques explaining what the building did. The best part was the greenhouse, which was SO PRETTY!! AND free to enter. I didn't do the tour, because I thought it was a bit too pricey for me, but I really appreciated how much they let us access for free. I still don't know who Frick is or what he did, which I may have learned from the tour, but a little sign explaining what he did and why they could buy such a fancy house would be useful! The giftshop contains a library and nursing space and is attached to a cafe. This looked like a great brunch spot!

I visited the Frick art museum complex for the first time last weekend! I wanted to see an exhibit there and I was pleasantly surprised that the exhibit ticket price was free! There are other exhibits there that you have to pay for, but being able to see some art and to walk around the premises for free is such a steal! I will say that you will probably be able to get through the art museum fairly quick, but I think there's also a car museum, a gift shop, gardens, and other neat things to check out while you're there. I would definitely come back here in the future!

This is my review just for the Art and Historical Center. I liked the cars and the stories on each one. I however did not like so much the art museum. I did not think it was anything special. I might not be a fair judge as I have vert particular taste when it comes to art and there was none on exhibit there. Overall the Frick grounds are beautiful and defiantly a must see. The car museum and art museum are free. There is one exhibit in the art museum that cost money and we did not do it. The cars for me where the best part. I probably would not go again.

When I lived in Regent Square I would often walk to the Frick for events and exhibits. It was nice to live so closely to one of our great museums. There are so many paintings, scupltures and other works of art to take in. Not to mention the car garage. I have also seen several concerts here and a few friends have had work on display as well. It's just a great place to take in culture, beauty and the arts.

We visited the Frick when we were in Pittsburgh for a weekend. The highlight of our visit were two exhibits: one excellent (SLAY: Artemisia Gentileschi & Kehinde Wiley) and one good (Romare Bearden: Artist as Activist and Visionary). (The SLAY exhibit was tiny but powerful, very interesting and special.) However, other than the two exhibit rooms, it wasn't clear to me if there was more to see. My confusion started from the start; we walked in, checked in, and I asked for a map. I was told they don't have maps but that it would be clear where to go. Ultimately, there wasn't much to see outside of the two exhibits. The Italian gallery is closed for conservation, so maybe things were just closed when we were there. But looking at others' Yelp reviews, it seems like there are a lot of other things we could have done (Car & Carriage Museum, Clayton, and grounds), but no one explained this to us when we arrived. So after spending about 15 minutes in SLAY and 25 minutes in the Romare Bearden exhibit, we left the museum. So despite two good exbibits, I left not very impressed with the museum overall since it seems like we missed out on a lot of what they had to offer. (I found a map on the website, and that's how I discovered how much we missed!) The exhibits were good, but the Frick left me very underwhelmed.

We have gone here previously during the summer months to see the gardens and car museums. Always nice to walk around the grounds here. Today we went to the Winterfest Event going on this weekend. There were several events going on. Outdoor ice skating, glass blowing demonstrations and horse drawn carriage rides to name a few. Despite the cold there was a lot of people walking around enjoying the events.

So I think this was my second time at the Frick. My first was at least 20 years ago in elementary school, where I'm pretty sure we just toured the Clayton House and the Car and Carriage Museum. I don't remember much from that first visit, but enough that I didn't need to take the House tour. I got in with a date for free with the Yelp Elite Week event, and I would say the regular price of $15 is adequate. Free is always better, but for what we got with that would-be-$15 ticket, i would have been ok with paying that. You get access to the art museum, the car and carriage museum, the greenhouse, Cafe (where you have to pay for your food and drink, of course), and the visitor center which has really nice and unique souvenirs, books, jewelry, and other things of the like. The only place that you do not have free access to is the Clayton House because you're not allowed to tour it yourself, you have to be led through by a docent. I would say that we were there for about 2 hours, total, and saw a lot of neat stuff. LOVED all the jewelry in this exhibit, and of course all the Chinese porcelain. We did not take any tours, so I can't say we learned a lot; but it was definitely a beautiful day to be out there. All in all, we had a great day on Yelp's dime! I've been wanting to try the afternoon tea at the cafe for a VERY long time now, but I'm pretty far away and would have to plan a whole day to go WITH a reservation. I hear it books up very quickly. I'll update if and when I get to try it out.

i Visited with 2 friends on May 26, 2024 The frick house has been allowed to degrade to a horrible state. Exterior paint is peeling. Beautiful ornate soffit and facia is rotting. Inside, Mrs Fricks bedroom has tens of thousands of dollars worth of plaster damage from roof leaks. The blue bedroom is closed because the ceiling fell. The main staircase has significant long term water damage from leaking roof. All while you enter through a multi million dollar modern visitor center that is totally out of place and no Better functionally than the old one. The tour included comments about how mr fricks workers were living in horrible conditions and were all victims of abuse by the wealth. It was basically a huge push for socialism vs a tour about the house and family. the price of the orchestrion in the entry was defined as the amount needed to feed several famlilies for a few years, painting frick as a glutinous monster. Millions were spent on a child care center that has nothing to do with the purpose of the facility. The staff at the cafe were inattentive Leaving us stand outside for 20 minutes without checking us in so we left. This place has fallen victim to absolutely incompetent activist managemen the frick family needs to step in and replace them all and restore order and it's original purpose

Great place to spend a couple hours! The Car & Carriage exhibit was especially interesting and there is an old Model T that you can sit in. On premise there is a small greenhouse and the main hall that includes much of the art, rugs, and Chinese ceramics that the family acquired and kept in their homes. We didn't pay for the addition special exhibit or the tour of the family home, but heard great things from other patrons.

Henry Clay Frick was chairman of the Carnegie Steel Company in the late 1800s. Driving from CLE to visit the Frick mansion and grounds we arrived learning that the mansion, named Clayton, was under renovation and the carriage house, containing horseless carriages, were both closed. So disappointed, but Frick is free to visit, so we saw what we could. We walked around the house and saw scaffolding and a lot of restoration needed on the exterior. Open were the small conservatory, which was filled with Poinsettias, and the art museum. We enjoyed the European art that was very old and many paintings were of religious subjects. There was a temporary art exhibit to see for a fee. The Frick gift shop was wonderful. Books and children's items about famous Pittsburgh people, like Mr. Rogers, Robert Clemente and Andy Warhol, were available. Good quality knick knacks and nice items were for purchase. This shop is worth the visit at any time. Also, on the weekends a cafe is open. Across the street is the hundreds of acres called the Frick Park, formerly of the Frick estate. Wear your walking shoes and enjoy it.

This was one of our first "normal" things we did during Covid. We went for the Cast in Chrome hood ornament exhibit, which was cooler than it may sound to the average person. Lots of neat vehicles and things to looks at. Informative writeups are bound to teach you a couple of facts you didn't know. I'd stop by to check out the other areas if I were in the area again.

Loved the car museum. I've been to many car museums. This one had older, rarer and more beautiful carriages and cars than what I've seen in some other museums. Not a huge collection but probably a priceless collection. The art museum was not that interesting, although I'm sure that many of the items are priceless, since many of them were 500 years old. My favorite painting was a Peter Paul Rubens.

This was my first time to The Frick Pittsburgh Museums and Gardens. Due to time restraints on my day, I didn't get to see much of the gardens and the Clayton House was closed. Best part of this museum is that it's FREE! Perfect for anyone that wants to include some culture in their trip! We started our visit at the Grable Visitor Center which is basically their Museum Shop. Considering it's a museum shop, their prices were rather reasonable for items. I got myself a very pretty pair of earrings for less than $10 with a membership discount! We then went to the Car and Carriage Museum. I enjoyed this very much! I find it interesting to see the changes made in transportation vehicles through the times and how the prices changed. There are some beauties in there. We then went to The Frick Art Museum. This is where the "Sporting Fashion: Outdoor Girls 1800 to 1960" exhibit was. It was interesting seeing the different clothing from these periods. I noticed how some clothing hasn't really changed much, which was rather interesting to me. You would think we would have these major changes in such a long period of time, but some of the clothes is very similar to today's! They also had an installation by Vanessa German that I was absolutely mesmerized with! I just found it so soothing and serene. It was called "Reckoning: Grief and Light". It was created in remembrance of Elijah McClain, Breanna Taylor, George Floyd, and the thousands of other Black lives lost without justice on a system shaped by institutional racism and white supremacy. They had a bench that you can sit and listen to the soundtrack that played while you looked at this beautiful installation about grief. It made me reflect on what the world is and remember certain parts of my own life and grief. The recording "Unburied, Unmourned, Unmarked: Requiem for Rice" a contemporary classical symphonic work about enslavement of Africans and of African descent in the New World. Layered with the music, German counts 8 minutes and 46 seconds, the initially reported time a Minneapolis police officer knelt on George Floyd's neck on May 25, 2020. The recording captures The Colour of Music Festival's performance on February 13, 2019 at Pittsburgh's Carnegie Music Hall in Oakland. They also had some pieces of China on display that was very pretty! The museum isn't that large but definitely worth checking out! I haven't been to The Frick in NYC as of yet, so I can't compare it, but I definitely enjoyed this visit! Plus it's a nice free thing to do while your in Pittsburgh! Covid Info: Employees we're masked and not masked. Patrons were not required to be worn if fully vaccinated. Unvaccinated patrons were required to wear masks. Social Distancing was enforced by times entry tickets.

The Frick museum, or Frick Art and Historical Center is a wonderful gem of Pittsburgh's Point Breeze neighborhood that I have known since growing up there as a child. There is so much to see, the art, the gift shop, a car a carriage museum, and the beautiful estate. It is certainly worth going for the art and fun concerts and events that happen during the summer. I can not speak to the food, or service of the cafe as I have not eaten there. Also, the green house does not come highly recommended. I tried to go in there one time, but it was so hot in there that it was very uncomfortable. Anyways, I would look out for art exhibits on the website and go to one that appeals to your tastes. You won't be disappointed.

A very nice museum complex with plenty to see and do. We've been here to check out vintage cars, the Sunday brunch series concerts, and have always enjoyed ourselves. The gift shop has a wonderful selection of items. This is a Pittsburgh gem!

Lovely grounds, loved the greenhouse. I've toured other homes across the US and this home has really been lovingly restored. What I have noticed recently, historical home tours include the history of all the people that lived and worked there. Including the not so refined and horrible treatment of the people who worked there. I found this tour to have a lot of information about the family. But just a passing mention of anyone else who also lived there but only because they worked there. The car museum is simply extraordinary with tons of the carriage to car examples.

I had high hopes for visiting a nice arts venue but regrettably it ended up being a bit underwhelming owing to restoration. Parking lot was closed when I went, Italian galleries were closed, Car and Carriage Museum closed, etc. I spent some time looking at the Romare Bearden exhibit and some tapestries (?) they have in the main hall. There were a couple of paintings, some other small items, etc. But, all in all, probably not worth taking out time to go unless you're local and are interested in the one exhibit they are hosting. Even after the closed gallery opens, the size of the rooms (and online web virtual tours) suggests there won't be as much added. The grounds are pretty (though small), and it was quite confusing finding where to even go. The girl at the desk was really friendly. For visitors, going to the Carnegie museum might be a better option, till restoration is complete.

Ah gosh! I really lucked out that the weekend I was in Pittsburgh was Easter and my planned visit to one of the other museums didn't happen because they were all closed and instead I went to the Frick because it was the only one open on Easter Sunday! I am so grateful for that serendipity because honestly looking at the Frick's brochure, visiting it was a lower priority and if I hadn't gone, I would have missed out on what turned out to be quite a lovely Sunday afternoon excursion. Surprisingly enough for me, I ended up just totally loving the house tour plus the collection of carriages/ automobiles that were displayed. I am definitely not a car girl, so the fact that I enjoyed the automobile + carriage collection as much as I did, really surprised me - especially as conversely, I didn't think much of the art collection! And just to give context, there is one lovely Monet and one lovely luminescent Rubens portrait but the rest of the collection is all this early renaissance devotional paintings (apparently collected by Helen Frick, who was a fan) but that style of painting honestly is not my fave. The art museum also had some lovely turn of the century bric-à-brac - I particularly liked an inlaid cabinet and a beautiful silver serving set. The actual house itself is a marvelously eclectic mishmash of architectural styles, with chateau dominating and well worth the $12.50 tour. I felt like I got a lot of bang for my buck as the house is gorgeous preserved and there were some beautiful examples of kitchenware (a lot of famous British & French names). I kept thinking of Versailles as we kept touring and its famous fleur-de-lies emblem also makes an appearance in the house. The 3rd floor is off limits, but other than that, it's so cool to peek into the house and the lives of the Frick family in the 1900s! The greenhouse was lovely too - the tulips were laid out in a way bag reminded me of Kurkenhof and transported me back to Holland in the springtime. All the staff I interacted with were super friendly and generous with their time, answering the gazillions questions I had. This was undoubtedly among the highlights of my trip to Pittsburgh this time and I spent a lovely Sunday afternoon touring the grounds. Absolutely recommend! Yelp Review 51/2017

Pleasant little art museum. The current exhibit on underwear is interesting. The shop is a pretty structure all it's own and has a lovely reading room with a view of the grounds.

We were visiting from LA for the Thanksgiving holiday. We came here to see the various exhibits and the Frick home. The lady at the front desk seemed aloof and said "she had no idea" when we asked about the different pamphlets. When we got to the Frick house we were told that we had to buy tickets for the tour and it wasn't included with our initial entry fees. We gladly went back to purchase tickets and were told they were "sold out" and had no more room even though a small group of people was about to start a tour. No, customer service and very transactional experience. Might as well replace the people with kiosks if this is the experience...

Having never been to The Frick or Clayton before I was surprised when presented with the opportunity to go last night as a surprise date. Being a history aficionado, particularly in regards to local history I was pumped to go. I've driven past Clayton and Frick Park many times and I quite enjoy the old homes and the overall history which the East End offers. Whether you agree or not with the things that Henry Clay Frick did, one thing we call all agree on is that he, Andrew Carnegie and the Mellon's built much of the city which we know and love. We were able to walk through the art museum which was commissioned by Helen Clay Frick to house her personal art collection. While art is generally not something I am particularly interested in, I do appreciate the beauty of it and the age of some of the pieces within the collection. It truly is an awesome sight to see. Walking through the grounds it's interesting to see the different structures and to try and understand how the Frick's lived on this property and what life may have been like during the gilded age of Pittsburgh when steel and coal reigned supreme. The gardens are beautifully kept. The green house is absolutely beautiful. If you look closely you may even see some interesting insects inhabiting the plants. As far as Clayton is concerned, this is primarily what I wanted to see. Within the walls of Clayton you will see the level of craftsmanship which was put into this home. It's 15,000+ square feet of absolute artistry in building. The detail of the ceilings, the crown moldings, the flooring, the furniture...I could go on and on. It truly is a sight to behold. The level of detail in which every aspect of the home was crafted is incredible. If something catches your eye, I suggest asking one of the tour guides about it. Henry Clay Frick had an eye for the details. I intend on going back to take a guided tour as soon as possible and if history is your thing I suggest you do the same. There are many things I didn't cover as I didn't get to see it all, however I look forward to returning and spending more time on the property and taking in as much as possible. I suggest you do the same!

Jessica gave us a fantastic tour of the Frick home. She knew an incredible amount about the history of the home, as well as the art and artifacts. The tour was a highlight of my trip to Pittsburgh!

This is one of my favorite places in Pittsburgh since moving here three or four years ago. The standing collection is beautifully curated and presented, the special shows always drill down to fascinating detail and the café is a delightful place to enjoy food and wine in a garden setting. I will visit again often.

This was my first time visiting here and not only did I want to see it's temporary exhibit "Killer heels" but also tour the rest of the grounds. I purchased a membership which entitles me to a free tour of the Clayton house. All I needed to do was go to the visitor's center and sign up for one. Although the museum itself is free if you are not a member then you pay a fee for this tour and also a separate fee to see Killer Heels. I didn't have to pay for that exhibit either since I had purchased a membership. The membership also entitles you to 10% off in both the gift shop and if you dine at the cafe. They do offer student discounts whether you are in high school or college as well as senior citizen discounts should you choose not to buy a membership. I arrived when it opened and really immersed myself in the Killer Heels exhibit. It was indeed fascinating and very interesting. They do offer some videos. Parent advisory is noted on some of them before entering due to mature elements. I went to the visitor's center and got on an early afternoon tour of the Clayton house which was the home of the Frick family before they moved to NY. I got to see the carriage house which was very interesting along with the greenhouse which I learned is modeled after Phipps conservatory. They were selling some herbs for Pittsburgh plus but I wasn't interested. The carriage house showed the evolution from the horse drawn carriages in the late 1800s to the first automobiles including the "Stanley steamer." My tour of the Clayton house was by far outstanding! They do have specific rules however. No photography is allowed in the mansion and you are not permitted to touch anything. Each room has a "chair" where one can sit if you get tired. Also no drinks are allowed. The tour encompasses both the first and second floor of mansion. The upper floor was the servants quarters and is off limits to the public. The grounds are quiet beautiful and they are many areas where one can sit and relax and take in the natural beauty of the surroundings. By lunchtime this place was packed with people so I would recommend to arrive early. They have their own parking lot which is free and is easy accessible if you buy anything in the gift shop and want to throw it in your car. Due to time constraints I was not able to visit the art museum itself but since I am a member will save it for a future visit. The people here are friendly and helpful and will gladly answer any questions you may have about the place and especially on tour. The art and architecture truly amazed me! That along with their special exhibit and my opportunity to dine there (the cafe is reviewed separately) made it a lovely day to see an area that was once part of the our "Millionaire's row" in Pittsburgh. Looking forward to returning there to see the art gallery and take that Clayton house tour again. Would give 4 1/2 stars in my book.

The Frick Pittsburgh is a museum that is located on five acres and was the former home of the Henry Clay Frick family. If you do not know, Frick was an industrialist who lived from the 1800s to early 1900s, and he worked in the coke manufacturing, steel, and railroad industries. I first visited The Frick Pittsburgh several years ago, and back then, I toured the Clayton mansion, the art museum, and the greenhouse, and I ate lunch at the cafe. Now, during the pandemic, many of Frick's buildings and programs are closed, so I recommend visiting their website to learn about their events. Today, I walked around the grounds outside, and I visited the car and carriage museum. Tickets were timed, and admission was free, although I did donate money to support their mission. Upon my entering the building, an employee kindly greeted me and checked me in. Two other employees guarded the vehicles, and they said friendly hellos to me. The car and carriage museum contained many antique cars and carriages, and signs explained the features of the vehicles. I felt interested in learning how some cars drove very slowly, while others could go up to 70 MPH. In addition, most of the cars were reasonably priced, but a couple, such as those from Royce Rolls, were very expensive. Flash photography was prohibited, but I still could take photos with my cell phone. Afterward, I walked around the grounds and viewed the buildings from the outside. The Frick children back in the day had an entire playhouse building all to themselves! Finally, I visited the gift shop, which sold products such as jewelry, books, stationery, greeting cards, tea, mugs and glasses, puzzles, candles, and totes. The cashier said a friendly hello and promptly rang up my purchases.

The tour was interesting and the guide very informative. The only deduction I have is due to the secretive aspects put in place 'by the Frick family.' Wanted to see where the servants worked and were held to earn their keep. Wanted to know more about the entire mansion that was built as a kids playground. Not sure if I admire or despise them after seeing the level of wealth amassed.

Many moons ago there was a street called "Millionaire's Row" in Pittsburgh comprised of Victorian mega palaces. Over the years, the children of those millionaires left Pittsburgh for glitizier places like NYC and the Hamptons, the mansions fell into disrepair and were bought up and knocked down. All except for one. Clayton, the big mansion at the Frick Art and Historical Center. Most people would never guess this architectual wonder was over near Wilkinsburg, but it exists, and yes it is safe to park over there. There is a guard who monitors the parking lot so no fear of making the drive and parking. Mr. Frick was the right hand man of Andrew Carnegie and did Carnegie's Dirty Work... hence his attempted assasination for Frick's role in the Homestead Strike and calling in the Pinkertons. Frick had three children. Martha died at age 5 and is immortalized in a marble bust and one or two paintings in the house. Childs Frick, son given his mom's maiden name for his first name, was in love with natural history and the natural world. Rumor has it a lot of those taxidermed animals in the Carnegie Museum of Natural History were gifts from Childs Frick. Helen Frick, the oldest daughter, never married. She dearly loved Clayton and spent her last years of life there. Helen set up a trust so that Clayton would be preserved as a living museum for Pittsburghers and other world travelers to visit. Helen was an avid art collector and besides making donations to the Carnegie Museum of Art, as did her father, and making donations to the Frick Art Museum in NYC... Helen maintained her own private collection. You can see Helen's private collection FOR FREE. Yes I said FREE. Traveling art exhibits often are given space at the Frick Art Museum and those traveling exhibits are also FREE. If you need a cheap, classy date in Pittsburgh, this would be a great place to take a girl for an afternoon of conversation and not drop much coin. It costs 10 dollars to see the house, three floors of four are open to the public, and the cost is well worth it. You can see one of only two surviving orchestrions. An orchestrion is like a player piano but massive with all the instruments inside of it. Mr. Frick didn't realize how heavy the thing would be and the orchestrion started to cause the floors to bow, so he moved it outside on the concrete porch. Supposedly he would ask the lady dinner guests what they wanted the orchestra to play, and would open the window so the music could drift in during dinner. Walking through the house is like seeing a snapshot of Pittsburgh Gilded Age high society and you can only imagine what all the other huge mega mansions looked like when Millionaire's Row was in full swing. The parlor has semi precious stones sewn into the wallpaper!! Its nuts. Once upon a time when I was in undergrad, I was an English major studying the Industrial Revolution and labor reform in a 19th Century British literature class. I saw close parallels to Pittsburgh History and called the Frick to ask if we could come visit. The wonderful employees over at the Clayton mansion arranged a tour for our English class for a very very low fee on a Thursday night. The low fee probably didn't cover all the electric they burned for us. We learned a lot and felt truly blessed we got to see so many things that went along with the British Literature we had been studying. Plus being from Pittsburgh, we got to see lots of local history come to life. However great as all this is, and yes you should go see it, probably the best comment I've heard about the Frick is my Dad's one liner on the porch after my first tour of Clayton: Me: "Isn't that a cool house Dad?" Dad "Oh its nice, but its a shame so many men died choking on black dust so they could live that way" There is a painting of a donkey in the house. Frick bought it because he considered it an image of the perfect worker who didn't talk back. Yes its true. And that's your grandfathers he was talking about while he had rubies sewn into his wallpaper. This is a vital place to visit if you want to understand how labor unions and labor reform happened in Pittsburgh and why. Go spend an afternoon and get some learning. Not good for small children. I wouldn't take any kids under age 12. Too many breakable things. When you go in the gift shop to buy your tour tickets, make sure you check out the floor. There are bowling lanes in the floor. no, I'm not kidding. See the gift shop was the children's playhouse, and when the Frick kids wanted to do some bowling, the adults would send out a servant to set up the pins for them. The upstairs of the kids playhouse was mostly kept empty so the kids could ride their bikes indoors when it rained. My favorite thing in the gift shop, if it is still out on display, is a letter from Mrs. Adelaide Frick to a neighbor expressing her deepest apologies that the Frick family dog took a chunk out of the neighbor.

How have I been living in Pittsburgh for over a year without a visit to this awesome site?! My husband and I finally paid a visit to the Frick thanks to the "We Love Our Members" promotion that local museums were offering to their members. (We are members at the Carnegie). I was vaguely familiar with who Frick was and knew there was a house tour, but I had no idea how much this site had to offer. Our visit began with a trip into the shop/visitor's center. There we browsed the gift shop while waiting for the tour to begin. The gift shop building was once a playhouse for the children and you can still see where gutters for the bowling alley run through the middle of the floor. It was a great place to start the tour and begin learning about the family and their connection to the area and American industry. I am not a Pittsburgh native, so I knew very little about them. It is important to note that you can't bring large bags with you on the tour, but they do provide free lockers to store them while you are in the house. The tour continued by entering the house. The enclosed porch provides a coat rack so you don't have to lug it around with you. The house is detailed as if the Frick family was still living there. We learned from our docent that they were fortunate that one of the family members lived there through the 1980s, so the house was well maintained and preserved. Each room has exquisite detail and decor. Our guide spent a great deal of time explaining and showcasing the art work. Many local Pittsburgh artists were featured along with well known artists such as Monet. Every aspect of the rooms were detailed including showcasing the new development at the time, aluminum. The rooms upstairs featured less detail but were still interesting. After our visit to the house, we stopped in the green house. I'm not that in to plants, but it was interesting to learn that the plants grown there are used in the cafe. Speaking of the cafe, we stopped in just to check it out. They were fully booked that day (which is fine since we weren't planning on eating anyway) but we were so enticed by the dessert selections that we got two desserts to go. A nutella cheese cake and a baked apple. We enjoyed those later that evening after dinner. I am not that in to cars, but the car and carriage museum was very interesting. The first section is carriages that the Frick family used. My favorite was their "special occasion" carriage that even had foot warmer! The car area featured various automobiles that had a connection to Pittsburgh. There is also the option of watching three short videos about automobiles in Pittsburgh. The art museum alone is worth a visit. They were preparing for an exhibit when we were there so only the Italian and French sections were open, but they were fantastic. A great collection with amazing detail and descriptions of each of the paintings. The interior of the building is an attraction itself. It does not look like it was built in the 1960s with the fantastic marble and woodwork. Overall, a very enjoyable place to visit that I highly recommend to anyone because there really is something for everyone at Frick.

The museum was smaller than I expected but very enjoyable. The rooms were beautiful; and many of paintings and sculptures are old and extremely rare. It made for a fascinating experience. The car garage, which I thought would be boring, was actually very interesting and informative. It really takes you back in time which I liked. The greenhouse was also a bit small but still worth seeing. The best part is that the museum, greenhouse and garage are all free. I hope to tour the house sometime as well. I just have a hard time justifying paying that much a simple house tour. Still, I enjoyed my time and hope to go back.

I'm biased towards this museum because it's on my afternoon walk route, so I go often and randomly. With that said, it really is a great institution and holds its own against the Carnegies, whom I equally love. It's small, not sprawling. You can easily get through it in an hour or two. The actual Frick collection is always free, but the Clayton house, events and exhibits require a fee. It is all worth visiting though. The grounds include the main museum, where some of the Frick family art collection is housed and various rotating exhibits are featured. There's the fantastic carriages and cars collection (very cool), a greenhouse, a cafe, the children's playhouse, and beautiful grounds where parties and weddings are held. There's of course the Clayton house which is where the Frick family resided. The cafe serves lunch and dinner, they also have a tea service on the weekends, which I regret never trying. They do a dinner at the Frick series, certain times of the year I believe. I've never eaten at the Frick, so I can't comment on the food. It's a cozy museum, which is how I can best describe it. You definitely feel the history that surrounds this famous family. There's also the Frick Collection in NYC, which I look forward to seeing. Sign up on their email list so you can be privy to events and get invited to exhibits at a discounted price or even free! Was able to see Irving Penn Beyond Beauty for free, and before that Killer Heels at a discount through a UPMC offer. It's tucked away in a residential area, and across from Frick Park.

The ice cream social was above and beyond what we expected had a blast thx. Cant wait for this next year and every year after truly a great event

We came to town for one of the special exhibits here and were not disappointed. We only wished we had more time to view the rest of the collections sufficiently.

I have always loved the Frick but this time they were hosting Yelps ice cream social. Where we tasted several local ice cream venders then we voted with pins! The event was filled with happy faces, painted faces and balloons. I was a bit disappointed, however, using so much plastic I tried reusing my cup but they would still use another cup and hand me the ice cream. Most of the guests left their plastic trash out. I would have been more pleased with biodegradable serving ware . The event was a lot of fun but the trash piles weighed heavy on my heart. I liked that there were other things other than ice-cream like ginger beer, an open cash bar, some other snacks and beautiful scenery.

My family attended the Frick this Friday for a picnic while the grounds were open to the public. It was beautiful...we walked in and saw families scattered on the lawn with big picnic baskets. There were lawn toys set out for kids to play with, twinkle lights strung throughout the space and a cool mix of music playing on the speakers. Nobody greeted us, despite seeing several employees at the entrance. But we still enjoyed every bit of the evening. There were a few food trucks at the entrance, but we packed our own dinner instead. It's nice to have the option though. And another option is the on-site restaurant. I'm looking forward to returning with a larger group for another Friday and hopefully for one of the First Friday's when there is live music.

This was a really nice way to spend our time in Pittsburgh. A beautiful and free admission to the Frick Family impessive collection of fine art and other luxuries. Located in Shadyside. I highly recommend a visit to this museum you will enjoy.