THE GOOD HUNTER, A PROMINENT WARRIOR OF THE IROQUOIAN COMMUNITY ON THE SANDUSKY RIVER IN THE EARLY 19TH CENTURY. | PHOTO COURTESY OF HEINZ HISTORY CENTER

If your plans for 2025 involve visiting some of Pittsburgh’s favorite museums, one will have to wait.

The Fort Pitt Museum, which depicts early Pittsburgh history through the lens of the bygone fort at the confluence, will on January 1 temporarily close for maintenance and repairs. The museum will reopen on February 1.

Part of the Heinz History Center’s network of institutions — along with the Western Pennsylvania Sports Museum and Meadowcroft Rockshelter and Historic Village, the latter of which is also closed for the season — the Fort Pitt Museum will undergo maintenance and lighting upgrades, as well as a meticulous cleaning of its detailed diorama of the Pittsburgh of the 1700s.

The museum’s latest exhibition, “Homelands: Native Nations of Allegheny,” focuses on indigenous inhabitants of the region. The exhibit was designed in collaboration with the Delaware, Seneca, Seneca-Cayuga, and Shawnee tribes.

Families looking to sneak in a trip before school resumes have a few more days to do so; the Fort Pitt Museum will remain open through Dec. 31, and child admission is waived for the month of December.