Center for PostNatural History, History museum in Garfield neighborhood, Pittsburgh, United States.

The Center for PostNatural History is a storefront museum in Pittsburgh's Garfield neighborhood founded by Richard Pell, an associate professor of Electronic and Time-based Arts at Carnegie Mellon University. Its displays of organisms intentionally and heritably altered by humans, such as GloFish, 'Biosteel' goats and a Silkie chicken, combine photography, taxidermy, dioramas and living exhibits, narrated through wired telephone handsets.

Richard Pell, an associate professor of Electronic and Time-based Arts at Carnegie Mellon University, founded the Center for PostNatural History as a storefront museum in Pittsburgh's Garfield neighborhood. Its traveling exhibitions have been shown at the Waag Society in Amsterdam and the Art Laboratory in Berlin, and in 2015 National Geographic featured the Center in its March issue on the Age of Disbelief.

The Center's name refers to the "postnatural": organisms humans have altered heritably, through selective breeding or genetic engineering. Exhibits are narrated through wired telephone handsets, and the museum deliberately uses neutral wording so visitors weigh the specimens rather than react to loaded terms. It also produces traveling exhibitions, shown at the Waag Society in Amsterdam and the Art Laboratory in Berlin.

The Center is a storefront museum in Pittsburgh's Garfield neighborhood, so look for a small street-level entrance rather than a large institutional building. Exhibits are narrated through wired telephone handsets at each display, so allow time to listen at every station. The Center also produces traveling exhibitions shown at venues such as the Waag Society in Amsterdam and the Art Laboratory in Berlin.

The museum houses Silkie chickens with unusually fluffy plumage that resembles wool rather than typical feathers. This rare breed demonstrates how ancient breeding practices radically altered animal appearance long before modern genetic tools existed.