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Name: MIT Museum
Address: 314 Main Street, Gambrill Center, Cambridge, MA, 02139, US
Telephone: +16172535927
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10/19/2026

How do we navigate the future of our oceans through science, policy, and collaboration?

On October 27, join us for Diplomacy Below the Surface: Science, Cooperation, and the Future of the Ocean Commons, a panel discussion between scientists, diplomats, policymakers, and coastal leaders exploring ocean diplomacy.

From deep-sea research to maritime law, dive into the action that's shaping the future of ocean stewardship.

A limited number of free tickets are available for full-time students with ID. Please reach out to [email protected].

Learn more and purchase tickets: https://hubs.la/Q04BBws70

Images: Thomas Fuhrmann, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons, and courtesy of the panelists.

10/17/2026

The Head Of The Charles Regatta returns to Boston!

For decades, MIT has had crews out on the water—best of luck to the men’s and women’s teams as you compete this weekend.

Photos from the MIT Museum collection.
Image 1: MIT women’s crew, 1989. Scott Mason, photographer, MIT Museum.
Image 2: MIT men’s crew, 1969

Curious about more MIT history? Visit the MIT Museum to explore our collection, and dive our newest exhibitions on OCEANS. Learn more via the links in our bio.

10/16/2026

Are you batty about Halloween? Celebrate at the MIT Museum! 🦇

Join us in our Maker Hub on On October 31 to create custom paper lanterns. Learn how to use digital design software, basic electronics, and a vinyl cutter to make and cut your own designs.

Recommended for ages 9+, all children must be accompanied by an adult.

🗓️ Saturday, October 31, 10:30 am – 12 pm
🎟️ General Admission: $30
Workshop price includes museum admission. Feel free to explore the museum before or after the workshop!

Learn more and purchase tickets: https://hubs.la/Q04BrHyJ0

10/15/2026

Are you missing After Dark this month? Worry not!
Beginning this November, we have so many exciting, oceans-themed After Dark events coming to you:

🐋 In November, decode the hidden worlds of dolphins and whales

🌊 In December, discover the strange and unusual creatures within the ocean’s Twilight Zone

🪸 In January, design your own corals, and hear from Margaret Wertheim, one of the artists behind Crochet Coral Reef
..and more to come!

Learn more and purchase tickets: https://hubs.la/Q04Bhrsx0

10/14/2026

Many creatures that dwell below the ocean's surface have physical forms that are dependent on water. Take jellyfish for example—in water, they’re often bell-shaped creatures with long, flowing tentacles; without water, they collapse into what looks like… well… jelly.

In the late 1800s, father and son duo Leopold and Rudolph Blaschka captured the grace and fluidity of these water-supported invertebrates by using glass and pigments to model them, bringing these delicate creatures to human view in collections across the world.

You can see a selection of the Blaschka’s marine invertebrate models in our Sensing Oceans exhibition, on view now: https://hubs.la/Q04BbhDB0

Blaschka Glass Invertebrates courtesy of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University; ©President and Fellows of Harvard College.

10/13/2026

Due to a tremendous response to our digital content open call, we're extending a second, programmatic open call to our community!

We're seeking proposals for innovative public programs that explore humanity's relationship with the theme of BRAIN. Public programs are community events such as talks, demonstrations, performances, or other interactive formats.

Our digital content open call is still open as well. Selected proposals from this open call will be featured as ambient content on a two-story digital screen in the Museum’s Yuchun (1989) and Agustina Lee Family Exchange, an amphitheater space at the heart of the museum with built-in stadium seating.

Both open calls will close on November 1, 2026! Learn more and apply: https://hubs.la/Q04B2XqD0

10/10/2026

The enthusiastic response to our Community Crochet Coral Reef workshops has been overwhelming! We're excited to announce that new workshop dates have been added, from October through December, 2026.

Join a workshop to learn how to make your own crocheted corals, and contribute your creations to the MIT Museum’s Satellite Reef—a communal art project resulting in the creation of a “coral painting” made entirely out of crochet!

Upon completion in early 2027, the MIT Satellite Reef will be part of the worldwide Crochet Coral Reef project by Margaret Wertheim, Christine Wertheim, and the Institute for Figuring.

Community Crochet Coral Reef workshops are free with museum admission, registration is required. Recommended for ages 14+

🪸 Learn more and register: https://hubs.la/Q04zRcTQ0

Photo: Pod World - Hyperbolic, part of the worldwide Crochet Coral Reef project by Margaret Wertheim and Christine Wertheim and the Institute For Figuring. Photo courtesy 58th Venice Biennale, by Francesco Galli.

10/09/2026

Collecting data from the ocean begins with a question: How do you get there? How to you get to the places you need to collect the data from, when those places may be thousands of feet below the surface?

Historically, underwater vehicles that were manned by people cost millions of dollars to build, and thousands more to operate, which limited research to what scientists could afford to do. In 1989, the Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUVs) Lab at MIT Sea Grant was founded with the mission to make AUVs that were cheaper, smaller, and able to reach the deep sea.

The Odyssey IV was one of these autonomous underwater vehicles—capable of diving quickly, navigating autonomously, and hovering to allow in-depth study of specific areas, it was one in a series of groundbreaking innovations.

See the Odyssey IV and other historic and pioneering data collection tools in our Sensing Oceans exhibition, on view now: https://hubs.ly/Q04zMKtB0

Photo by Anna Olivella.

10/07/2026

North Atlantic right whales are among the world's most endangered species, with fewer than 400 whales left—and climate change is only worsening the problem.

On October 22, join us for a screening of ENTANGLED, an award-winning, feature-length film about the efforts to protect right whales, the impacts of those efforts on North America’s most valuable fishing industry, and the federal agency that's mandated to protect them both.

The film screening will be followed by a conversation with filmmaker and reporter David Abel, and Erica Fuller, Senior Counsel in the Ocean Program at the Conservation Law Foundation.

Learn more and purchase tickets: https://hubs.la/Q04zvLGd0

10/04/2026

Happy Smoot Day!

68 years ago, in the middle of the night, members of MIT's Lambda Chi Alpha fraternity laid freshman Oliver Smoot end-to-end across the Harvard Bridge between Boston and Cambridge. When the sun rose in the morning, there were 364 tick marks painted along the sidewalk, indicating that the bridge was 364 Smoots long (plus or minus an ear).

The tick marks are repainted each year to commemorate the hack, and are even referenced by local police in accident reports. Incredibly, Oliver Smoot would go on to become—of all things—the head of the American National Standards Institute, and later, the International Organization for Standardization.

Visit the Museum to see the world's only standard Smoot bar. Today is the last day for free admission during Future Fest!

Photo from the MIT Museum collection

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314 Main Street, Gambrill Center
Cambridge, MA
02139

Opening Hours

Monday	10am - 5pm
Tuesday	10am - 5pm
Wednesday	10am - 5pm
Thursday	10am - 5pm
Friday	10am - 5pm
Saturday	10am - 5pm
Sunday	10am - 5pm

Telephone

+16172535927

Website

http://mitmuseum.mit.edu/

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