Jonas Salk, his wife, Donna, and his three sons, Peter, Darrell, and Jonathon, arrive in Pittsburgh on April 12, 1955, from the University of Michigan, where the vaccine was announced “safe, effective, and potent.”
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If you need a place to stay in Pittsburgh, the following Oakland hotels are conveniently located near the University of Pittsburgh campus.

Holiday Inn Select University Center
(closest to Alumni Hall and the Cathedral of Learning)
100 Lytton Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15213
Phone: 412-682-6200

Marriott Residence Inn
3896 Bigelow Boulevard
Pittsburgh, PA 15213
Phone: 412-621-2200

Wyndham Garden Hotel, University Place
3454 Forbes Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15213
Phone: 412-683-2040

Parking (for a fee) is available at the Soldiers and Sailors Garage at Fifth Avenue and Bigelow Boulevard. This is the closest parking facility to both the Cathedral of Learning, site of the Remembering Polio Community Celebration, and Alumni Hall (the former Masonic Temple), where the Remembering Polio Scientific Symposium will be held. Click here for a map of the area.

The Carnegie Museum of Natural History, where the Salgado photo exhibit The End of Polio: A Global Effort to End a Disease is on display from March 5 to May 15, maintains its own parking facility, which is directly behind the museum and can be accessed from the intersection of Forbes Avenue and South Craig Street.