MIT Museum

01/08/2024

Can the pipette be a paintbrush?

Put your artistic talents to the test at our Liquid Lab Art series. Fill in mandala-like templates for a meditative experience or test your creativity by designing your own pipette masterpiece.

This workshop is perfect for fans of adult coloring books, experimental artists, and everyone in between.

Jan 22

Reimagine the biologist’s laboratory as an artist’s studio as you learn foundational wet lab skills and apply them to create beautiful works of art.

01/05/2024

In honor of , we’re sharing a pic of our favorite bird. 🐔

Art credit:
Nonhuman Nonsense Pink Chicken Project, 2017

On view in our Gene Cultures exhibition

01/04/2024

Go beyond the fold at this month’s After Dark!

Team up with mathematicians and engineers on large scale origami models, create Japanese kusudama out of wooden tiles, and learn how to fold dumplings from the experts at Mei Mei Dumplings! 🥟

Get your tickets today → https://mitmuseum.mit.edu/programs/mit-museum-after-dark

Open daily 10am-5pm
314 Main Street, Cambridge MA.

12/29/2023

Best wishes for the new year, from your friends at the MIT Museum!

Art Credit:
Harold Edgerton, Pigeon in Flight (detail), 1965

12/20/2023

📣Attention holiday shoppers!

Need some last minute gift ideas? Head over to the MIT Museum store (or visit us online) for gifts that are sure to delight, inspire, and that are just plain cool. https://bit.ly/3RxRmbM

12/18/2023

The museum is in the running to be named Best New Museum by USA Today. Cast your vote by December 25!

MIT Museum: Vote for your favorite new museum!!

12/13/2023

See what Mark Feeney, The Boston Globe art reviewer has to say about our exhibition "So Easy to See: Berenice Abbott's Super Sight", then come see for yourself. Arts at MIT

In "So Easy to See: Berenice Abbott’s Super Sight," at the MIT Museum, small things make for big visual packages.

12/12/2023

12/11/2023

Photography lovers – this one’s for you. 📷

Join us TOMORROW for a roundtable discussion of photographer Berenice Abbott’s Super Sight – a process she developed that has been transformative in the photography of science.

Get tickets! → https://mitmuseum.mit.edu/programs/so-easy-to-see-berenice-abbotts-super-sight-photography

12/07/2023

Join us TONIGHT for another session in our popular Design Redefined series!

Shifting the focus from the design of material goods and physical artifacts, we’ll be exploring the design of human experience, and discussing how whether for games, performances, or other engagements, design plays a critical role in how we perceive, interact, and feel.

Challenge the boundaries of design in this series of panel discussions, interactive exercises and networking opportunities.

12/05/2023

New month? New After Dark!

This month’s theme is “Build.” Expect a night of fabrication, construction, creation, and design (plus great food from Vincent's and local craft beers from Aeronaut Brewing Company).

Get your tickets soon – they’re selling fast!

Enjoy a lively evening of entertainment, science, and tinkering for the 21+ crowd! Monthly.

12/05/2023

Join us at the MIT Museum Studio and Compton Gallery (Building 10-150), for an Open Studio display and discussion of student drawings and learning experiences from its Drawing Human Experience course.

Dec 8
2-4pm
Note: this event is located in our MIT Museum Studio and Compton Gallery, located in building 10-150 (not at the MIT Museum)
https://mitmuseum.mit.edu/more/mit-museum-studio-and-compton-gallery

Arts at MIT

12/04/2023

In the early 1940s Berenice Abbott developed a method of direct image capture resulting in large photographic prints that are astonishing in their clarity, detail and transparency even today.

Join us for a roundtable discussion of Abbott’s technique, motivation and the results, moderated by MIT Museum’s Gary Van Zante, curator of the Museum’s exhibition on Abbott’s Super Sight.

Dec 12
6:30-8:30pm
$15 General Public
$5 MIT ID Holders

Get your tickets today →

Berenice Abbott's Super Sight prints are recognized as possibly the most successful realization of her career-long quest for photographic realism.

12/01/2023

From heart-breaking to hilarious, The Story Collider is a live storytelling event featuring stories from people of all walks of life about how science has affected them. Join us as we welcome back The Story Collider with hosts Bart Thompson and Katherine J. Wu.

Dec 9
7-8:30pm
$15 General Public
$5 for MIT ID holders
https://mitmuseum.mit.edu/programs/the-story-collider

11/30/2023

Our Design Redefined series is back with Designing Experience: Performance, Play, and Participation. 🪀

This time, we’re shifting the focus from the design of material goods, to the design of human experience.

Join us for a conversation about games, performance, and other engagements – and how design plays a critical role in how we perceive, interact, and feel.

Dec 7
4-6pm
Free with museum admission (waived admission starting at 3pm).

Challenge the boundaries of design in this series of panel discussions, interactive exercises and networking opportunities.

11/29/2023

In the Whale is arguably the greatest fish story ever told. 🐋

It’s the true account of a man who survived being swallowed by a whale, and what happened after being spit out.

Join us for a screening of In the Whale, followed by a Q&A with director David Abel.

In the Whale is a selection from the Woods Hole Film Festival

Dec 6
6-8pm
$15 General Public
$5 for MIT ID holders
https://mitmuseum.mit.edu/programs/selections-from-the-woods-hole-film-festival

11/27/2023

How will technology impact the future of our emotional connections with one another? Can an imagined pandemic prepare us for the next real one?

Since 2011, the MIT Press’s Twelve Tomorrows series of anthologies has brought together the day’s leading science fiction authors and tasked them with exploring the role and potential impact of developing technologies in the near, and not-so-near, future.

Join a panel of Hugo Award-winning authors as they discuss the value and utility of using science fiction and cutting-edge research to imagine the future and question the present.

Dec 2
1-2:30pm
Free w/museum admission
https://mitmuseum.mit.edu/programs/write-science

Open daily 10am-5pm
314 Main Street, Cambridge MA.

11/24/2023

Today might be , but who’s ready for ?

What’s on your wishlist?
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11/23/2023

What are we grateful for? Our curious visitors and fans. Happy Thanksgiving! 🦃

P.S. caption this image in the comments! 📝

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Image from our collections: Thanksgiving dinner on ship (Monaco) - Simone Cousteau, WHOI expedition event, 1961

11/16/2023

Please note that this event is on Satuday, November 18!

11/14/2023

What’s On this week at the museum:

🎬🚀Nov 15: Selections from Woods Hole Film Festival: THE SPACE RACE
https://mitmuseum.mit.edu/programs/selections-from-the-woods-hole-film-festival

🖊📕Nov 18: Write Science: Tackling Disinformation & Misinformation
https://mitmuseum.mit.edu/programs/write-science

11/13/2023

Since 2011, the MIT Press’s Twelve Tomorrows series of anthologies has brought together the day’s leading science fiction authors and tasked them with exploring the role and potential impact of developing technologies in the near, and not-so-near, future.

We're excited to sit in on a panel of Hugo Award-winning authors as they discuss the value and utility of using science fiction and cutting-edge research to imagine the future and interrogate the present. Join us at MIT Museum on December 2nd at 1 p.m. for this fascinating conversation!
https://mitmuseum.mit.edu/programs/write-science

11/13/2023

Disinformation. War on truth. Strategic denialism.

However you frame it, misinformation campaigns are having a profound impact on American society – especially with how quickly (dis)information spreads on social media.

Lee McIntyre, author of On Disinformation: How to Fight for Truth and Protect Democracy, and Adam Berinsky, author of Political Rumors: Why We Accept Misinformation and How to Fight It, will be in conversation on Sunday Nov 18 to discuss the roots and scope of this problem and share the tools necessary to win the war on truth.
MIT Press

Nov 18
1-2:30pm
Free with museum admission
https://mitmuseum.mit.edu/programs/write-science

11/09/2023

📣 Calling all Sci-Fi lovers!

Learn more about this exciting event ---> https://mitmuseum.mit.edu/programs/write-science

Since 2011, the MIT Press’s Twelve Tomorrows series of anthologies has brought together the day’s leading science fiction authors and tasked them with exploring the role and potential impact of developing technologies in the near, and not-so-near, future.

We're excited to sit in on a panel of Hugo Award-winning authors as they discuss the value and utility of using science fiction and cutting-edge research to imagine the future and interrogate the present. Join us at MIT Museum on December 2nd at 1 p.m. for this fascinating conversation!
https://mitmuseum.mit.edu/programs/write-science

11/09/2023

“History. If you don’t know where you’ve been, you don’t know where you’re going.” - Leland Melvin, NASA Astronaut

As America raced to beat the Soviet Union to the moon, a Black astronaut candidate came closer to launching into space than anyone we ever knew.

In their film THE SPACE RACE, directors Lisa Cortés and Diego Hurtado de Mendoza profile the pioneering Black pilots, scientists, and engineers who joined NASA to serve their country in space – even as their country failed to achieve equality for them back on Earth.

Spend an evening with us for a special viewing of THE SPACE RACE. 🌎💫⭐️

Nov 15
6-8pm
Tickets → https://mitmuseum.mit.edu/programs/selections-from-the-woods-hole-film-festival

This film is a selection from the Woods Hole Film Festival.

11/07/2023

The place was rocking at last month's After Dark 🍻🎤📕

Got your tickets for this Thursday night? 👀 ---> https://mitmuseum.mit.edu/programs/mit-museum-after-dark

11/02/2023

Hear from first time CEOs and entrepreneurs from across the globe who are working to meet challenges of the life science sector.

Presented in collaboration with the Termeer Foundation, we’re excited to host this unique panel discussion, followed by a networking reception.

Buy your tickets today!

Join us as we bring together CEOs and entrepreneurs from across the globe working to meet challenges through innovative science and passion.

11/01/2023

Ready for some serious sensory play? 👂

Get ready for this month’s After Dark: The Five Senses!

Take in the sights and sounds of Arachnodrone with the exhibition artists, explore the science of taste with Clover Food Lab, and create your own fragrance in our Maker Hub.

You won’t want to miss it.

Buy tickets today → https://hubs.la/Q027crgD0

Enjoy a lively evening of entertainment, science, and tinkering for the 21+ crowd! Monthly.

10/31/2023

What’s a vampire's favorite fruit? 🦇

A blood orange.

Count Jibo wishes you a safe and spooky Halloween! 🎃

Stop by the museum today for a fang-tastic time. →
https://hubs.la/Q02765JJ0

10/30/2023

AI.

Recent developments have seemingly emerged out of nowhere to pose unprecedented threats to humankind. But Dr. Joy Buolamwini, who has been at the forefront of AI research, saw this coming.

Join us for an afternoon with Dr. Buolamwini, founder of the Algorithmic Justice League and author of Unmasking AI as she discusses her book and the ways that racism, sexism, colorism, and ableism can overlap and render swaths of humanity vulnerable in a world rapidly adopting AI tools.

Nov 5
1-2:30pm
Free with museum admission
https://mitmuseum.mit.edu/programs/write-science
MIT Media Lab

Meet leading writers in science, technology and art.