Grazia Toderi and Désiré Despradelle: Spectacular Cities
September 28, 2016 - March 19, 2017
Despite careers separated by a century, architect Désiré Despradelle (1862–1912) and artist Grazia Toderi (b. 1963) share a conception of the city and urban architecture as spectacle.
Imagining New Technology: Building MIT in Cambridge
Through September 4, 2016
A collaboratively built 3-D model and rarely seen architectural drawings, photographs, and objects celebrate the centennial of MIT in Cambridge.
Public and Private: East Germany in Photographs by Ulrich Wüst
September 5, 2015 - January 3, 2016
Public and Private: East Germany in Photographs by Ulrich Wüst presents Ulrich Wüst’s evocative views of the former totalitarian state and the transformations of the capital, Berlin, before and after reunification.
5000 Moving Parts
November 21, 2013 – January 19, 2015
Melding art, science, history and technology, 5000 Moving Parts featured sculptures by Anne Lilly, John Douglas Powers, Takis, Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, and Arthur Ganson in collaboration with sound artist Christina Campanella.
The Jeweled Net: Views of Contemporary Holography
Through March 2015
The Jeweled Net: Views of Contemporary Holography presented a rare opportunity to view selected works from the world-wide community of practicing display holographers.
Photographing Places: The photographers of Places Journal, 1987–2009
January 22 - August 16, 2015
This exhibition in the Kurtz Gallery for Photography featureed a range of images by twenty photographers whose work appeared in the influential landscape and urban design journal Places between the years of 1987 and 2009, when the journal moved online.
Daguerre’s American Legacy: Photographic Portraits (1840–1900) from the Wm. B. Becker Collection
April 18, 2014 - January 4, 2015
Provocative, thoughtful and sometimes haunting, the portraits in this exhibition of 19th century Americans portray men, women and children during an era when new photographic technologies were just becoming accessible and popular.
Stanley Greenberg: Time Machines
September 13, 2013 - March 16, 2014
New York-based photographer Stanley Greenberg has long entranced viewers with his stunning black-and-white photographs that provide unparalleled access to objects and places ordinary people might otherwise never see—from New York's century-old water system to the hidden infrastructure of some of
Hidden Heroes: The Genius of Everyday Things
April 13, 2013 – September 27, 2013
We use them every day. They influence our lives. They are so common that we rarely think about them: the hidden heroes of everyday life. Be it a dowel, a tea bag or a zipper, these objects are classics.
After Katrina: MIT's Department of Urban Studies + Planning Takes On Big Questions About Rebuilding
May 3, 2013 - September 15, 2013
After the event of Hurricane Katrina, faculty, students, and alumni from MIT’s Department of Urban Studies and Planning (DUSP) and School of Architecture and Planning (SA+P) worked in New Orleans and the Gulf Coast with many organizations and on many issues.
Rivers of Ice: Vanishing Glaciers of the Greater Himalaya
April 13, 2012 – March 17, 2013
During the past century, many glaciers of the Greater Himalaya have been in retreat. Rivers of Ice: Vanishing Glaciers of the Greater Himalaya reveals the dramatic glacial melt through stunning photography taken by mountaineer, filmmaker and Glacier
MIT is ... 36 (of Many) Pictures and Stories
2013
"What is MIT?" Ask the MIT community to describe the Institute and you will hear a thousand different stories.
Joël Tettamanti: Compass Points
2013
Joël Tettamanti’s photographs are a vast archive of the structures, villages and cities that people create and inhabit, and the landforms and climates that shape their culture.
The Poster Art of Jaqueline Casey
2012
Graphic designers rarely achieve fame or even public recognition for their work, although that work is often highly visible and broad in its impact. Jacqueline S.
Ways of Seeing: An exhibition of student projects by the MIT Museum Studio
April 12 – 18, 2012
“The relation between what we see and what we know is never settled.” —John Berger
This exhibition featured projects that explore the use of light for changing the way we see and communicate.
Berenice Abbott: Photography and Science: An Essential Unity
May 3 – December 31, 2012
The MIT Museum opened the new Kurtz Gallery for Photography with an inaugural exhibition featuring over seventy images by Berenice Abbott taken while working at MIT.
The Paradiso Synthesizer
Through 2012
The sounds produced by the Paradiso Synthesizer are “programmed” manually by running wires between various outputs and inputs.
Dark Machines
Through 2012
To accompany the exhibition Berenice Abbott: Photography and Science: An Essential Unity, Daniel Jackson, an avid photographer and MIT professor of electrical engineering and computer science, created a photographic essay documenting current scientific research at MIT.
Holography: The Light Fantastic
2005-2012
This exhibition explores MIT Museum's collection of holograms—the world's largest such collection. The holograms on display provide a truly unique visual experience and survey the usefulness of holography, from anthropological and archival renderings to credit card security.
MIT 150
January 8 – December 31, 2011
Browse objects and stories that embody “the restless searching spirit” that animates MIT research and brings to life MIT’s motto of mens et manus, “mind and hand.”
Dust Serenade
Through December 24, 2010
Dust Serenade is a reenactment of an acoustic experiment designed in 1866 by German physicist August Kundt.
Mind and Hand: The Making of MIT Scientists and Engineers
Through June 14, 2010
How does a teenager evolve into one of the world’s top scientists or engineers in the space of a few short years?
Luminous Windows 2010
December 2009-March 2010
Luminous Windows 2010 is the MIT Museum’s second annual winter display of holograms on Massachusetts Ave. Set in the MIT Museum’s ground-floor gallery windows, the holograms are visible from outside, on the sidewalks and street, every evening from dusk until 2 a.m.
Félix Candela: Builder, Engineer, Structural Artist
April 2 – September 27, 2009
Félix Candela: Engineer, Builder, Structural Artist, is an exhibition devoted to the work of Spanish-born master builder and structural artist Félix Candela (1910-1997).
Giant Leaps: MIT Goes to the Moon
June 10 – September 13, 2009
Ask anyone who was at MIT in the 1960s and early 1970s about the Apollo program and they will tell you where they gathered on campus to watch launches, landings, and splashdowns. People all over the world were watching but at MIT, many had much more at stake.
Connections
Through September 13, 2009
Connections at the MIT Museum explores the social potential of new communication technologies.
Hollowed
March 19 – September 13, 2009
An exhibition of selected works by Shada/Jahn (Steve Shada and MIT Media Lab Artist in Residence Marisa Jahn) and Cati Vaucelle.
Ports and Ships: Photographs by Andrea Frank
February 10 – June 14, 2009
Despite the expansion of air transport in the last half century, global trade still moves mainly by sea, as it has for centuries. Ports and Ships illuminates the invisible global network of vessels crisscrossing the seas, delivering goods, and connecting continents.
The Types We Can Make: A Selection of Contemporary Swiss Type Design
February 10 – June 14, 2009
The exhibition presents a selection of new typography from Switzerland, where type design has been a high art form for generations.
Flashes of Inspiration: The Work of Harold Edgerton
Through March 2, 2009
The world knew him for his splashing milk-drop, scientists were indebted to him for giving them a window on the invisible, generations of MIT students looked to him for inspiration, but there's so much more to learn about the man everybody called “Doc.”
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