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Interactive Exhibits
Throw a perfect pass. Watch Bill Mazeroski hit a World Series-winning home run. Play a hole at Oakmont. Drive a power boat.
The Western Pennsylvania Sports Museum at the Senator John Heinz History Center promises to "get you in the game" with more than 70 hands-on interactive exhibits, a two-story video theatre and 20 audio-visual programs for visitors of all ages.
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The interactives correspond with the sports covered in the Sports Museum, including football, baseball, hockey, golf, bicycle racing, horse racing, river racing, and track and field, as well as nutrition and health.
Sports Museum interactives are designed for both children and adults. Young children can ride a powerboat, compare their shoe size to shoes worn by Pittsburgh Steeler L.C. Greenwood, and make a perfect football throw to Lynn Swann and John Stallworth in the "Quarterback Attack" exhibit.
Adults can listen to legendary play-by-play broadcasts from Bob Prince and Rosey Rowswell, or try their hand at the museum's Par 4 miniature golf hole with features found at the famed Oakmont Country Club, including mounds, depressions, and "church pew" sand bunkers.
Visitors will feel like witnesses to history in the museum's two-story theater, where five screens show great moments in Western Pennsylvania sports, including Bill Mazeroski's World Series-winning home run and the Penguins' Stanley Cup victories.
Other interactives include the bocce section where visitors can try rolling the hand-sewn leather balls and the Sport and the Body exhibit where they can test their reaction time, vertical leap or balance. Serious sports fans can use the state-of-the-art Hall of Fame database located in the Champions Gallery to access information on inductees who grew up here or played here in Western Pennsylvania.
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Interactive Football Exhibit
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Interactive Childrens Games
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Make Your Own Medal
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