
Virtual Girls Day: Icky Science
Girls Day, offered twice a year, celebrates women who are exploring, researching, and innovating in fields of science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM).

Teen Science Café: Equity in Healthcare
Designed by teens for teens, this event brings together scientists and high-school students to explore new research and discuss what inspires and influences people to pursue careers in STEM. At our next Zoom webinar, meet experts in the field of equity in healthcare.

Museum Mini Courses for Adults
Explore the intersection of art and science in our hands-on short course series for adults. Choose a topic, then learn about current and past MIT research as you build, experiment, and create.

Hands-on Science for Families
Explore the intersection of art and science in our hands-on short series designed for families. Choose a topic, then gather the family together as you learn about current and past MIT research and build, experiment, and create.

Teen Science Café: Sustainability Today, Solutions for Tomorrow
Our popular Teen Science Cafe connecting teens with researchers and each other goes online!

Curator Talk: The Polaroid Project
Join curators Deborah Douglas, William Ewing, and Barbara Hitchcock for a special in-depth look at The Polaroid Project: At the Intersection of Art and Technology.

Study Group: COVID-19, SARS-CoV-2 and the Pandemic
The MIT Museum is organizing a study group in conjunction with MIT Biology’s publicly available course on the coronavirus and pandemic.

Virtual Girls Day
Girls Day, offered twice a year, celebrates women who are exploring, researching, and innovating in fields of science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM). Our fall 2020 program will focus on the intersection of art and science.

Money for Nothing: An Author Talk with Thomas Levenson and Carl Zimmer
Join us for an evening discussion with author Thomas Levenson and his friend and fellow science writer Carl Zimmer as they explore the intersection of science, math, and the birth of the modern financial system by way of Levenson’s newly published book, Money for Nothing.

Science Trivia Night
Gather your friends, roommates, and Zoom-mates to test your knowledge of quirky factoids and Institute curiosities.

Imaging Science
Join in a two-week celebration of documenting the world through photography. After a kick-off webinar, take and share your own images then come back for a final event, and meet winners from the MIT Koch Institute's annual photography contest who will discuss their work, and pick their favorites from your submissions.

Teen Science Café: The Technology and Ethics of Genetic Engineering
Our popular Teen Science Cafe connecting teens with researchers goes online!

Virtual Teen Science Cafe: Designing the Future
Our popular Teen Science Cafe connecting high school students with scientists goes on-line!

Painting with Light
Join Seth Riskin, Manager of the MIT Museum Studio and Compton Gallery, for a workshop inspired by Professor Gyorgy Kepes’s photograms.

Physics and Photography Workshop for Adults
PLEASE NOTE: These workshops have been cancelled.

SEM Small Talk
PLEASE NOTE: All drop-in activities are suspended while the museum remains close. Drop by and watch as a scanning electron microscope (SEM) magnifies objects over 5000 times.

Feb Fest
Join us for Feb Fest, our annual celebration during February school vacation, with daily hands-on activities, workshops, and more.

Neuroscience Paint Night
Create a painting of cerebral cortex neurons and hear about Eyewire, a cutting-edge, video game-based citizen science project.

Teen Science Café: Nanoscale Engineering
Learn about nano-engineering and how it impacts our lives from the scientists researching it!

Chain Reaction Contraption Construction Help Sessions
Want help designing your contraption for the Friday After Thanksgiving Chain Reaction? Join us for contraption construction building help sessions.

Polaroid Day
Join us for a special day celebrating Polaroid and its development of instant photography. Hear stories of how artists informed the technology and how technology provided new ways for photographers to work.

Girls Day
Each November and March we honor the contributions of women in science and encourage girls to stay excited about all things STEM.

LGBTQ+STEM
Celebrate LGBTQ+ contributions to Boston area university research through short presentations and the chance to mingle with researchers and others.

Moon Shots
Our celebration of the 50th anniversary of the first humans landing on the moon continues into the night with a 21+ over-the-moon event.

Lunar Day
Come celebrate the 50th anniversary of the first humans landing on the moon. Travel back to 1969 to learn about MIT’s critical role in the mission, and meet researchers who will offer a glimpse of the future of space exploration.

Book Talk: Richard Bertman: The Sculptures
Join author Christina Lanzl and Richard Bertman, as they discuss Bertman's work and new book Richard Bertman:The Sculptures.

Glass Band Performance
Immerse yourself in a soundscape of glass-blown music. MIT’s Glass Lab Director Peter Houk, star musician Mark Stewart, and their Glass Band colleagues will create a one-of-a-kind symphony of sound.

Cambridge Science Festival
Every April, as part of this city-wide festival, enjoy performances, learn about cutting-edge research, and meet scientists and engineers of all kinds.

Lunar Exploration Expo
In celebration of the upcoming 50th anniversary of the first humans landing on the moon, join us for a lunar exploration.

Physics and Photography Workshop for Adults
Learn how MIT researchers are able to photograph events as fast as light itself, then learn how to use mainstream cameras to shoot your own high-speed photography.
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