The Polaroid Project: At the Intersection of Art and Technology
Through June 21, 2020
In its heyday, Polaroid and its products were loved by millions of amateurs and embraced by countless professionals.
The MIT Moderns
Ongoing
Explore modernist graphic design through the important contributions of the MIT Office of Design Services in the 1960s-1980s, one of the most innovative design practices of its time in the country.
Gestural Engineering: The Sculpture of Arthur Ganson
Ongoing
Press a pedal or turn a crank and you’ll put Ganson’s machines into motion.
In Motion
Ongoing
Explore how motion, an essential element of our world, can be harnessed and deployed in a variety of ways.
Lighter, Stronger, Faster: The Herreshoff Legacy
Through May 1, 2021
Visit this groundbreaking exhibition tracing the legacy of influential naval engineer Nathanael Greene Herreshoff.
Making Digital Tangible
Through August 31, 2020
Hiroshi Ishii, founder and director of the Tangible Media Group at the MIT Media Lab and influential visionary of Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), has spent the last quarter century pursuing his quest to make the digital world tangible.
Arresting Fragments: Object Photography at the Bauhaus
Through September 1, 2019
In celebration of the Bauhaus centennial, the Museum presents Arresting Fragments: Object Photography at the Bauhaus, featuring 90 prints from Bauhaus Archive, Berlin, collections.
Drawing, Designing, Thinking: 150 Years of Teaching Architecture at MIT
Through August 25, 2019
To mark its 150th anniversary, the MIT Museum, in collaboration with the MIT Department of Architecture, presented a dynamic exhibition exploring architecture, education, and design through the lens of student work.
Right Now: Polaroid's Invention of Instant Photography
Through August 2019
See a rare large-format camera from the museum’s Polaroid collection.
Projects and Prototypes: MIT Student Work
Through April 2019
Inventive projects and kinetic sculpture by MIT students exemplify the Institute’s legendary values of creativity, ingenuity, and practical problem solving.
Imagined Communities: Photographs by Mila Teshaieva
Through March 3, 2019
This retrospective of photographer Mila Teshaieva’s multi-year work on constructed identities, is drawn from three recent projects in which she interrogates the idea of nation as an "imagined community” and a political construct that is often in conflict with private and public memory.
Celebrating the 50th anniversary of the MIT Center for Advanced Visual Studies
Through January 30, 2019
To mark the 50th anniversary of the opening of the MIT Center for Advanced Visual Studies (CAVS), the MIT Museum plans an historical overview through selected works by CAVS research fellows, students and professors.
The Beautiful Brain: The Drawings of Santiago Ramón y Cajal
Through December 31, 2018
An unprecedented opportunity to see and compare the beautifully rendered images of renowned scientist Santiago Ramón y Cajal (1852-1934), with contemporary visualizations of the brain created by neuroscientists at MIT and other universities.
Energy Lines
Through September 2018
Energy Lines was exhibited at The MIT Museum Studio and Compton Gallery, and is the work of the class of STS.035 Exhibiting Science.
Robots and Beyond: Exploring Artificial Intelligence at MIT
Through August 12, 2018
Robots and Beyond highlights the transformational MIT robotics research that occurred from the late 1950s onward, shaping and defining the field of Artificial Intelligence today.
György Kepes Photographs II
Through July 15, 2018
György Kepes (1906-2001) was an artistic innovator, theorist, and educator whose work and ideas profoundly influenced art and design practice in the second half of the twentieth century.
Big Bang Data
Through April 1, 2018
Big Bang Data explores the intersections of culture, technology, and society in the digital age.
György Kepes Photographs I
Through March 5, 2018
György Kepes (1906-2001) was one of the most influential art practitioners, educators and writers of the twentieth century, and his work as a painter and art teacher has been celebrated in both exhibitions and scholarship.
Herreshoff Collection Highlights
Through February 22, 2018
See highlights of ship portraits and plans from the Hart Nautical Collection's Herreschoff archives, on view in the hallway to the left of the second-floor visitor services desk.
Recreating Edgerton
Through February 22, 2018
See artist Jorge Otero-Pailos's "Space-Time 1964/2014," a C-print documenting his 2014 re-enactment of Harold Edgerton's iconic 1964 photograph "Bullet Through Apple." Otero-Pailos worked with MIT Museum staff using Edgerton's original equipment.
Holography: Dimensions of Light
Through February 2018
View and interact with selected works from the MIT Museum’s comprehensive holography collection in Holography: Dimensions of Light.
The Enemy by Karim Ben Khelifa
Through December 31, 2017 [SOLD OUT]
The Enemy by Karim Ben Khelifa, a groundbreaking interactive Virtual Reality (VR) exhibition and immersive experience, makes its North American premiere at the MIT Museum.
Projects and Prototypes: MIT Student Work
Through April 2019
Inventive projects and kinetic sculpture by MIT students exemplify the Institute’s legendary values of creativity, ingenuity, and practical problem solving.
Images of Discovery: Communicating Science through Photography
Through September 10, 2017
Experience photography as a tool for communicating about—and inspiring a passion for—science and technology.
The Diamond Trace: Kimberley, South Africa in Photographs by Patrick Tourneboeuf
Through September 3, 2017
In The Diamond Trace, French photographer Patrick Tourneboeuf examines the aftermath of a city that grew after the discovery of a big diamond, and was all but abandoned when the gems became scarce.
Cosmic Bell: Exploring Quantum Weirdness
Through September 3, 2017
Cosmic Bell and its integrated program is an innovative experiment in public engagement with complex science topics. The exhibition explores the Cosmic Bell Experiment, an international, research project led by MIT physicists David Kaiser, Alan Guth, and Andrew Friedman.
Rapid and Deployable: An Experiment in Fast Construction
Through August 30, 2017
Through one student project, explore how architects, designers and artists are redefining practices, pioneering techniques, and experimenting with material properties.
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.
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The Museum will remain closed through December 31, 2020.
