Massachusetts Institute of Technology / MIT Museum
Building N51 265 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02139
Open Daily 10am – 5pm / Closed Major Holidays
Last year the museum set about making a short movie about the Museum. Hear from MIT Museum Director about the plans for new programs and the vision behind the Mark Epstein Innovation Gallery that opened in September 2007. Other links on this page take you inside the famous Friday After Thanksgiving Event attended by over 1,000 people every year, and inside some students' heads. Hear what it's like to be part of the MIT community.
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MIT Museum: Ideas in the MakingThis short film introduces you to the MIT Museum. Meet the people behind the exhibits and find out what draws people from around the world to this unique museum.
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Lunch with a LaureateDuring the 2010 Cambridge Science Festival the MIT Museum hosted free lunchtime discussions with award winning MIT scientists. Robert C. Merton - April 26, 2010 Richard Schrock - April 30, 2010
2009 Lunch with a Luminary Frank Wilczek - April 27, 2009 John Ochsendorf - April 28, 2009 |
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Friday After Thanksgiving Chain ReactionIn these short live action recordings, watch as ping pong balls, ducks, marbles, legos and a host of other simple and funny elements move forward to trigger what is certainly the region's biggest chain reactions, and one of our most treasured holiday traditions. Every year maestro and artist Arthur Ganson provides commentary and a surprise ending to the mega Rube Goldberg machine. |
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Soap BoxThis salon styled evening of a short talk with MIT scientists includes thoughtful queries from live audience members – from those at the museum and from those watching the live webcast. Watch archives of the webcast, or view edited versions of the programs on MIT World. |
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Bridging the Gap between Genetics and the EnvironmentFeatured in the MIT Museum's exhibit, Learning Lab: the Cell, this video profiles three scientists in the Center for Environmental Health Sciences and their research into the relationship between genes, environmental factors, and cancer. |
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Energy Night at the MIT MuseumZigZag, MIT's own video news magazine, reports on one of the MIT Museum's highlight annual events, Energy Night @ the Museum, sponsored by the MIT Energy Club. |
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The Work of Arthur GansonMachine With 11 Scraps of Paper, © 1999 Arthur Ganson
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Re:DesignIn February '08 the MIT Museum presented Re:Design, A Dramatization of the Correspondence of Charles Darwin and Asa Gray. Written by Craig Baxter and produced by the Darwin Correspondence Project at Cambridge University in Great Britain this play is a lively interpretation of previously unpublished letters. |
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Boston Behind the Scenes looks at the MIT MuseumBoston Behind the Scenes is a critically-acclaimed podcast that looks at the people and places that make Boston the unique city that it is. Through interviews with prominent (and not-so-prominent) Bostonians, the show brings you inside the lives of the people who make this city tick. |
MIT MUSEUM Building N51 265 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02139
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