Enjoy some nostalgia from Pittsburgh’s past, or explore some of the sights unseen throughout the city with our Virtual Storytelling–On-Demand.
All of our DOORS OPEN Pittsburgh Virtual Storytelling live events have been recorded and are available for on-demand playback through Patreon, our content host.
Watch as many as you want, when you want–and get access to new content when it becomes available.
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Virtual Storytelling On-Demand
Abandoned Pittsburgh: Gears & Ghosts
August Wilson’s Hill District
Bayernhof Museum: Music Boxes & Other Obscure History
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Behind the Beer: A Peek Inside Penn Brewery
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Behind The Stage Doors: Rocking at the T-Bird
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Behind the Stage Doors: A Promoter’s Life
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Behind the Stage Doors: If These Walls Could Talk
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Behind the Stage Doors: Shama Lama Ding Dong
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Behind the Walls: Western State Penitentiary
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Beyond the No Outlet Sign: Private Spaces in Public Places
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City Stairs: Stepping Back into Pittsburgh’s History One Staircase at a Time
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Clemente Museum: Telling the Humanitarian Story
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Culinary Journey from Portugal to Pittsburgh
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Daniel Burnham: Made No Little Plan in Pittsburgh
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Development of Oakland
Finding Solitude: George Westinghouse
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Frank Lloyd Wright in Pittsburgh
Ghosts of Pittsburgh
Glen Hazel’s WWII Housing: 80 Years of History
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H. J. Heinz—Secrets of a Pickle King
Henry Hornbostel’s Impact on Pittsburgh
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Holiday Cheers! A Truly Unique Winery Experience
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I Shall Always Love You Isaly’s
Inside the City of Pittsburgh Vault
Jewish Squirrel Hill: 1907-1957
Jonas Salk Ends Paralyzing Summers
Kennywood Behind the Screams
Lost Treasures of Pittsburgh
Mapping: From Pittsburgh to Middle-Earth
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Multi-stories: Skyscrapers and the Tycoons That Built Them
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Nationality Rooms: Uncover a Connection
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Nellie Bly: How a Sassy Girl from Pittsburgh Became a Legend
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Obscure Pittsburgh
Painting Pittsburgh Neighborhoods, by Artist Ron Donoughe
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Pittsburgh Astronomer’s Tiny Abode
Pittsburgh Jazz: Home of the Innovators
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Pittsburgh: America’s Glass City
Pittsburgh’s First Pandemic: The White Plague
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Pittsburgh’s Lost Chinatown
Secrets of Pittsburgh’s Bridges
Significant African-American Buildings in Pittsburgh
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That Was Where? Mill Locations in Pittsburgh
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The Hidden Jewish Neighborhoods of Pittsburgh
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Theatres of Downtown: A 100-Year Story
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Theatres of the Old Northside
To Pittsburgh, from Germany with love: Holiday Markets
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Votes for Women in Western Pennsylvania
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Western Penitentiary: Life and Death Inside the “Wall”
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When George Washington Almost Lost His Head
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When George Washington Defeated Death…Again
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Whiskey, Women, and Pittsburgh’s Diamond
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