Are you planning a visit to the MIT Museum?
Did you know that we offer introductory tours, led by knowledgeable guides. You will have the opportunity to look closely at objects from across the Museum’s collection each Wednesday and Saturday at 11 am.
Free with museum admission. No pre-registration available. Talks are limited to 20 people and are available on a first-come, first-served basis. Learn more via our website.
The MIT Museum has announced its inaugural MIT Future Fest, programmed between September 30–October 4 across MIT’s campus in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The five-day gathering will feature 2024 Nobel laureate Daron Acemoglu, MoMA curator Paola Antonelli, and Venice Architecture Biennale curator Carlo Ratti, among many others.
Read more at the link in bio.
🌎 An astronaut who watched glaciers shrink from space.
🌿 An AI researcher helping save species we've barely discovered.
🙌 Students ready to lead the next wave of climate action.
The second annual Day of Climate packed the @MITMuseum with learners, educators, families, and big climate innovation ideas — from the view 250 miles up to the algorithms tracking life on Earth.
Led by the pK-12 Initiative at MIT Open Learning, Day of Climate is more than an event — it's a free, adaptable curriculum designed to bring climate education to learners and educators everywhere.
🔗 Read the full event recap and explore the curriculum at the link in our bio!
#ClimateChange #ClimateAction #pk12 #STEM
Have you ever wondered what it would be like to collaborate with a robot?
Join us at our next After Dark where Wil Norton (MIT CSAIL) will demonstrate a humanoid robot and invite guests to experiment with creating custom hardscape designs.
Then head to the Maker Hub and Learning Labs, where hands-on activities in collaboration with the Fab Foundation let you design, experiment, and create something uniquely yours.
Enjoy music on demand with DJ Philip Tan and his genre picker wheel. Lite bites from Tandor and Curry and craft beverages from Aeronaut Brewery available for purchase.
📅 May 14
⏰ 6-9 pm
🎟️ $10 for MIT affiliates; $20 for the general public; $25 same day tickets
Learn more and purchase tickets via the link in our bio. Image by Wil Norton
Friday I defended my @mitdusp thesis titled Mountain Blues & Water Gospel: How Affrilachian Women Cultivate Worlds in the Afterlives of Coal Extraction. I can’t fully express how much this project means to me, and how grateful I am to have women in my family guiding me through this process. Through my own family lineage tracing, oral histories, and archival research I came to know more of the lives of Black women who created an overworld in 20th century southern West Virginia coalfields. The load balancing capacity Black women built through community care networks, community serving institutions, and good ol Affrilachian creative ingenuity gives us a historical reference in casting a vision for post-capitalist repair & production in these times of collapse.
My thesis exhibition is on view on the third floor of @mitmuseum until today at 5pm! So go check it out if you’re local to Boston.
During my month-long residency in WV, I found an LP of Rev. F.C. Barnes & Rev. Janice Brown’s Rough Side of the Mountain at an antique shop. That song was the land gospel that carried me through project but also a song that connected me with the stories of so many others. Thank you to the team who helped me reimagine and re-record this iconic gospel classic (to be released soon🤍)
Vocalist: @carlyharveymusic
Lead Producer: @austnf1
Bass/Piano/Organ/Drums: @thatguycsquared
Studio: @astro.studios
This whole process was a practice in using my free will: rejecting objectivity, following my intuition, seeking wholeness, and fully immersing myself in the counter archives of this place I inherited from my mother’s memory. I dedicate it to her Kim Caine, my Nana Ophelia, Great Grandmother Mary, Great Great Grandmother Gertrude🤍
Thank you to my collaborators & village: Council of Southern Mountains, Bluefield State Alumni Association, Poet & Historian L. Renee, and Judge Terri Jamison, my thesis advisor @karilyncrockett , my partner Andre Oshea💗 @artsatmit@intothemayaverse@kimcaine.realestate@torimackenziiie@fontessawoods@dr_tonya_speaks@_ecotonal@euphoriccdreams@kiki_leray@dylanrollo_roth@drecatur@niii.shy@l_merchie@bethanysmith4
Central Square Theater and the MIT Museum present the debut of: NO RECOMBINATION WITHOUT REPRESENTATION
The Cambridge City Council faced a decision that would echo across the globe. At the center of it all stood a new biohazard lab designed for groundbreaking recombinant DNA research—celebrated by some as the future of science, feared by others as the birthplace of “Frankenstein bacteria.” Nobel Prize–winning scientists, passionate citizens, politicians, and the global press all converged on Cambridge to confront one explosive question: Who gets to decide the boundaries of scientific discovery?
This performance is a partnership between the MIT Museum, Central Square Theater and the City of Cambridge, inspired by the continued relevance of these debates as the occasion reached its semicentennial.
Performances will occur at Sullivan Chamber in Cambridge City Hall on the following days and times:
Saturday, June 13: 2:00pm and 7:00pm
Sunday, June 14: 2:00pm and 7:00pm
Sunday, June 21: 2:00pm and 7:00pm
All shows are free and open to the public with registration.
Learn more via the link in our bio
You’re invited! Join us tomorrow, May 8th from 3–5 PM at the MIT Museum Studio for the opening reception of Synchronicity: Drawing Ourselves in Time — a showcase of final works from students in Drawing Human Experience 21A.513.
This video features student figure drawings of one of our figure models from this semester.
📍 MIT Museum Studio 10-150
🗓 May 8th | 3–5 PM
#MIT #MITMuseum #studentart #OpeningReception #Synchronicity
Announcing MIT Future Fest: a new five-day festival this Fall, opening MIT’s doors to the world, inviting you to participate in the next era of science, technology, and human understanding, September 30–October 4, 2026, on MIT’s campus in Cambridge, MA.
Presented by the MIT Museum with @technologyreview and @mitdesignacademy , the inaugural edition brings together MIT President Sally Kornbluth, Paola Antonelli (@paolantonelli ), Carlo Ratti (@carlorattiassociati ), Hugh Herr (@hugh.herr ), Skylar Tibbits (@skylartibbits ), Danielle Wood (@space.enabled ), Daniel Sundlin (@danielsundlin ), Behnaz Farahi (@behnazfarahi ), Ana Rajčević (@anarajcevic_studio ), and more — closing with the beloved Cambridge Science Carnival (@cambridgesciencecarnival ).
Tickets go live in June. Sign up now at MITFutureFest.org to be first in line and unlock an early-access discount. Link in bio.
Have you ever wanted to be in the room when key questions about how institutions respond to issues of public trust is built?
Are you interested in joining the conversation around how emerging technologies like AI and synthetic biology are formulated?
Join us at the Existential Risk, Emerging Technology, and Democracy symposium, hosted by Ian Coss, creator of The Big Dig podcast for a day of conversation and reflection on how societies govern world-changing technologies.
📅 June 12
⏰ 9 am - 4:30 pm
🎟️ $10 for MIT affiliates and $20 for the general public, with lunch provided.
We have a limited number of free tickets available for full-time students with ID. Please reach out to [email protected].
This symposium was made possible through the generous contributions of MIT Museum supporters Phil and Ann Sharp and MIT’s Department of Science, Technology, and Society. This program is part of the MIT Museum’s year-long exploration of TIME, and is part of the Massachusetts 250 activities celebrating the many “firsts” and innovations created in our state through the last 250 years.
Learn more and register via the link in our bio.
In celebration of today's Met Gala, fashion's biggest night out, we are inspired by the work of Samuel Vance Chamberlain. Faculty in the Department of Architecture at MIT 1934-1946. Chamberlain was an artist, author, and educator who worked in pencil sketches, watercolors, lithography, etching, drypoint, and photography. His autobiography, Etched in Sunlight was published in 1968. Pictured with his wife Narcissa Chamberlain.
Selected prints dated from the 1900's and works on paper and gouache are part of the MIT Museum's collection, as part of a Gift from the Chamberlain Family.
🎶 This Thursday, April 30, come explore the intersection of human and machine creativity at Design Redefined: Music, AI, and Community at the MIT Museum.
— Experience live demos and experiments with MIT researchers exploring through a musical lens
— Use AI tools to generate movement, sound, and ideas, and shape them into a communal performance
— Leave with a sense of community, and a new perspective of what’s possible when humans and AI co-design
🎟️ Free with MIT Museum admission.
🔗 Learn more, link in bio
This event is hosted in collaboration with the MIT Museum (@mitmuseum ) and Innovators for Purpose (@innovatorsforpurpose )
Last Friday, VISTA Research Insights stepped outside the lab and into the MIT Museum for an inspiring session on science communication, art, and public engagement.
Together with Christianne, we explored how museums are reimagining their role to address today’s complex socio-scientific challenges 🎨🔬
A big thank you to everyone who joined us and made this visit such a great experience!
Stay tuned for upcoming events 🙌🏼
