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Exhibitions

The MIT Museum presents an exciting array of exhibitions and displays, providing a window into MIT's fascinating world of science and technology. The mission of the Museum is to share the creative energy of MIT, and to stimulate an understanding and appreciation of the meanings of scientific and technological innovation in the modern world.

Recently expanded by 5,000 square feet, the Museum's galleries present ongoing and changing exhibitions on science and technology and current research; architecture and design; and oceanography, underwater robotics and ship design. You'll find high-tech artifacts, prototypes, intriguing scientific instruments, historic photographs, amazing holograms, a scientific aquarium, and even ingenious kinetic sculptures. Click here for upcoming exhibits.

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	The Mark Epstein Innovation Gallery The Mark Epstein Innovation Gallery features topical, regularly changing exhibitions on the work of selected research groups at MIT. Currently, the Innovation Gallery's exhibitions and programs give visitors the opportunity to explore artwork and technology that challenges how digital information and virtual entertainment affect their lives.
	Robots and Beyond: Exploring Artificial Intelligence at MIT Ongoing An excursion into the exciting world of artificial intelligence at MIT. Interviews with robot designers and researchers, interactive displays and historical robotic devices, including the 1993 version of the sociable robot, Kismet.
	Holography: The Light Fantastic Ongoing Eye-popping works drawn from the Museum's holography collection – the world's largest – that illustrate the artistic and scientific facets of the medium.
	Gestural Engineering: The Sculpture of Arthur Ganson Ongoing Stop, look, and laugh – ingenious, philosophical, and witty kinetic sculptures that can best be described as "Rube Goldberg meets Jean-Paul Sartre" (David Sims, Smithsonian Magazine).
	Learning Lab: The Cell Ongoing Step into the nucleus of a cell and get ready for a tour of the process that lies at the heart of all life: creating proteins with instructions written in DNA.
	Mind and Hand: The Making of MIT Scientists and Engineers Ongoing Time travel through student life and learning and experience firsthand what an MIT education is really like.
	Visionary Engineer, Harold Edgerton November 14, 2009 The Museum recently opened a new display filled with Edgerton artifacts and memorabilia. You'll also find computers to access the exciting new Edgerton Digital Collections, strobe lights used to make Edgerton's iconic photographs, and a new "piddler" machine donated by the Edgerton Center at MIT
	Compton Gallery Exploring the Arctic Sea Floor: Photographs by Chris Linder July 11 - January 4, 2010 Linder's beautiful photographs show, in his own words "the epic struggle between man and the environment." Using ingeniously invented robotic divers, the expedition explored the Gakkel Ridge, parts of which seethe with geysers escaping from beneath the ocean bottom.
	Hart Nautical Gallery The Hart Nautical Gallery was designed as part of MIT's Pratt School of Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering and opened in 1922. Today the gallery serves as a showcase for the Museum's exceptional ship models, as well as superb examples of ocean engineering technology developed at MIT in the exhibit, Deep Frontiers: Ocean Engineering at MIT.

Past Exhibitions

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