Collections

Among the oldest marine technology archives in the U.S., the Francis Russell Hart Nautical Collections document marine design and shipbuilding.

Nautical

detail of decorative elements from drafting class

Architecture

detail of brightly colored abstract shapes from hologram Event Horizon, Rudie Berkhout, 1980

MIT History

detail of Berenice Abbott photograph of interference patterns in water

Photography

Our science collections include historic artifacts documenting key scientific discoveries as well as instruments and apparatus for teaching.

Macromolecular crystal structure wire model of yeast phenylalanyl transfer RNA

Science

Our Technology collection include instruments, artifacts, photographs and related materials from the mid-19th century to the present.

Technology

The Martin Klein Collection features archives and slides in the field of side scan sonar technologies and the sonar and subsea sensing industry.

Martin Klein near water holding a side scan sonar device

Martin Klein Collection

detail from Woodbury's painting The Blue Wave

Charles H. Woodbury Collection

Haffenreffer-Herreshoff Collection

water fountain hooked to fire hydrant to show what an MIT education is like

MIT Hacks Collection

A curved paper folded shape by David A. Huffman.

David A. Huffman Collection

Imre Halasz Collection

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