page_title: Bayernhof Music Museum
hierarchical_section_title: Bayernhof Music Museum
caption_attribution_description: English: Bayernhof Museum, 225 St. Charles Place, O'Hara Township, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA. Photography was permitted in the museum without restriction.
context_page_description: Bayernhof Music Museum features a major collection of automated musical instruments from the 19th and 20th centuries. Located six miles northeast of downtown Pittsburgh in the suburb of O'Hara Township, Pennsylvania, it is housed in German-style mansion sited on an 18-acre, dramatic overlook some 540 feet above the Allegheny River Valley.
  Bayernhof is the name of the mansion itself, a $4.2 million project completed in 1982 as a private residence by Charles Brown III, founder and CEO of Gas-Lite Manufacturing Company in Pittsburgh. The 19,000-square-foot house includes a rooftop observatory, an indoor cave, a swimming pool with a 10-foot waterfall, 10 fireplaces, eight full baths, three powder rooms, three full-size kitchens as well as a completely restored copper still.
  The museum was a directive of Mr. Brown's will and it opened to the public in 2004.
context_section_description: Bayernhof Music Museum features a major collection of automated musical instruments from the 19th and 20th centuries.  Located six miles (10 km) northeast of downtown Pittsburgh in the suburb of O'Hara Township, Pennsylvania, it is housed in German-style mansion sited on an 18-acre (73,000 m²), dramatic overlook some 540 feet (160 m) above the Allegheny River Valley.
  Bayernhof is the name of the mansion itself, a $4.2 million project completed in 1982 as a private residence by Charles Brown III (1935–1999), founder and CEO of Gas-Lite Manufacturing Company in Pittsburgh. The 19,000-square-foot (1,800 m²) house includes a rooftop observatory, an indoor cave, a swimming pool with a 10-foot (3.0 m) waterfall, 10 fireplaces, eight full baths, three powder rooms, three full-size kitchens as well as a completely restored copper still.
  The museum was a directive of Mr. Brown's will and it opened to the public in 2004.
caption: Bayernhof Music Museum
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