Frick Car & Carriage Museum

The Car and Carriage Museum is part of The Frick Pittsburgh, the estate of industrialist Henry Clay Frick and his family on Reynolds Street in Pittsburgh. It holds the Frick family's carriages and a collection of automobiles from around the turn of the 20th century, and tells how the first horseless carriages reached Pittsburgh and what part the city played in the early car industry.

The installation From Carriages to Cars starts with the Frick carriages, among them a 1903 Brewster and Co. Basket Phaeton, and moves through cars built from 1898 to 1941. Henry Clay Frick's custom 1914 Rolls-Royce, his daughter Helen's 1931 Lincoln and a 1909 Stanley Steamer sit among them, and most of the other cars came from the collector G. Whitney Snyder. A Ford Model A is there for visitors to climb into.

The carriage museum opened in 1990, and an expansion in 1997 tripled the space for cars and carriages. The Frick campus around it holds the Frick Art Museum, Clayton, the family home, the greenhouse, gardens and a cafe.

• From Carriages to Cars: the Frick family's carriages and cars from 1898 to 1941, laid out roughly in order to show the switch from horse to motor.
• Henry Clay Frick's custom 1914 Rolls-Royce.
• Helen Clay Frick's 1931 Lincoln.
• A 1909 Stanley Steamer.
• The 1903 Brewster and Co. Basket Phaeton and other Frick family carriages.
• A Ford Model A that visitors can climb into.
• How the car changed technology, Pittsburgh's neighbourhoods and everyday life.
• Temporary exhibitions in the museum alongside the permanent cars.
• The Café at the Frick and the Frick Museum Store on the same campus.
• Bringing friends or family? The gardens, grounds and the permanent collection of the Frick Art Museum are free too, and Clayton, the Frick family home, has paid guided tours.

• The Car and Carriage Museum opens Tuesday to Sunday, 10:00 to 17:00. Closed Mondays.
• Also closed on New Year's Day, Easter, Memorial Day, Juneteenth, Independence Day, Labor Day, Indigenous Peoples' Day, Thanksgiving Day, Christmas Eve and Christmas Day.
• Admission to the Car and Carriage Museum is free. Fees apply to certain special exhibitions and to Clayton tours, which run from 10:15 to 15:00 and sell out, so buying ahead is recommended.
• The gardens and grounds open 08:00 to 17:00, the Café at the Frick 09:30 to 15:00, and the Frick Museum Store 10:00 to 17:00, Tuesday to Sunday.
• The entrance is on Reynolds Street, with a free car park.
• Pittsburgh Regional Transit buses 67 and 69 run from downtown Pittsburgh. The 71C now ends in Oakland and no longer serves downtown.
• Contact: +1 412-371-0600 or info@thefrickpittsburgh.org.

• Last verified: 8 November 2026
• Official link: https://www.thefrickpittsburgh.org/carandcarriagemuseum