The MIT Museum invites you to explore invention, ideas, and innovation. Through interactive exhibitions, public programs, experimental projects and its renown collections, the MIT Museum showcases the fascinating world of MIT, and inspires people of all ages about the possibilities and opportunities offered by science and technology. Learn more
Sampling MIT will directly connect visitors to some of the thousands of research topics currently being explored at the Institute. In typical MIT fashion, the questions being asked are large, and the techniques used to discover answers are broad - from bio-engineering a virus to build a ...
MIT Professor Daniel Nocera and his research team are in a race to make inexpensive energy from the sun - and they want to do it soon. Using plant photosynthesis as their inspiration, this exhibit shows how they can now use the sun's energy to split water into ...
Research by the MIT Space Policy and Society group has the possibility of shaping the most important human space policy decisions in a generation. On view in this exhibit is the space suit designed by Professor Dava Newman, as well as other artifacts relating to ...
Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) has revolutionized brain research in much the same way that the telescope revolutionized astronomy. Museum visitors now have the opportunity use the red telephone in the exhibit Sampling MIT to become part of breakthrough research on ...
Preview your visit to the MIT Museum in Cambridge, MA! This short video lets you in on some of the highlights of the Museum's exhibitions and programs.
In 2009, over 1,100 people came, participated and watched as artist and renowned chain reaction creator Arthur Ganson led the 12th Annual Friday After Thanksgiving Chain Reaction. Teams from all over bring a link, which is then connected to the next link and becomes ...
In his role as a biochemist, Hidde Ploegh explains the "essential features of the lifestyle of the flu virus."
In a piece produced for exhibit at the MIT Museum, Professor Thomas Malone discusses the MIT Center for Collective Intelligence, where the basic research question is, How can people and computers be connected so that collectively they act more intelligently than any person, group, or computer ...
"When you bring together lots of people and have them all contributing, you can do really remarkable things." In a piece produced for exhibit at the MIT Museum, researchers at MIT's Center for Collective Intelligence discuss their development of the Climate Collaboratorium, an online tool ...
The MIT Museum presents MIT Professor Tyler Jacks in a Lunch with a Luminary event, part of the 2009 Cambridge Science Festival. Prof. Jacks, Director of the Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research at MIT an, discusses his life, work, and current interests in this conversation with MIT ...
The MIT Museum presents MIT Professor Angela Belcher in a Lunch with a Luminary event, part of the 2009 Cambridge Science Festival. Prof. Belcher, Germehausen Professor of Materials Science and Engineering and Biological Engineering, discusses her life, work, and current interests in this ...
The MIT Museum presents MIT Professor John Ochsendorf in a Lunch with a Luminary event, part of the 2009 Cambridge Science Festival. Prof. Ochsendorf, Associate Professor of Building Technology in the MIT School of Architecture, discusses his life, work, and current interests in this ...
The MIT Museum presents MIT Professor Frank Wilczek in a Lunch with a Luminary event, part of the 2009 Cambridge Science Festival. Prof. Wilczek, a recipient of the 2004 Nobel Prize in Physics, discusses his life, work, and current interests in this conversation with MIT Museum Director John ...
Prof. Natalie Kuldell and Reshma Shetty PhD '08 are at the forefront of new tools in biological engineering that allow thousands of citizen scientists of all backgrounds to build custom bacteria and other simple organisms from off-the-shelf technologies and biological building blocks. In a ...
Visit the MIT Museum where historic robots, dazzling holograms and kinetic sculpture are showcased in an intimate museum setting. Meet the people behind the exhibits - curators and Museum Director John Durant. Learn about the new Innovation Gallery, the Cambridge Science Festival and all that ...
In 2008, over 1,300 people came, participated and watched as artist and renowned chain reaction creator Arthur Ganson led the 11th Annual Friday After Thanksgiving Chain Reaction. Teams from all over the country bring a link, which is then connected to the next link ...
A short documentary of the history of the subminiature vacuum tube. This 16 minute film was produced by the MIT Museum with funding from Raytheon in 1986 for the MIT Industrial Liaison Program. The producer and director was Seichi Tsutsumi of the MIT Industrial Liaison ...
In the cytoplasm of the cell the ribosome acts like a workbench for the translation of the DNA code. The tRNA molecules bind to the mRNA strand if their 3 letter codes match. The tRNA molecules arrive towing amino acids, the building blocks of proteins. The amino ...
In the cytoplasm of the cell the ribosome acts like a workbench for the translation of the DNA code. The tRNA molecules bind to the mRNA strand if their 3 letter codes match. The tRNA molecules arrive towing amino acids, the building blocks of proteins. The amino ...
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