MIT Museum

The MIT Museum, founded in 1971 in Cambridge, grew from an effort to gather and preserve Massachusetts Institute of Technology artifacts and documents that had been scattered across the institute. Renamed in 1980, it expanded into exhibitions and public programs that connect MIT’s history and research with the wider public. Its collections span artificial intelligence, robotics, architecture, maritime history, technology-related art, and the institute’s own past, and it is especially known for holding about 1,800 holography works, the largest such collection in the world. After closing in 2020, it reopened in 2022 in Kendall Square, where galleries, hands-on spaces, and public events continue that mission.

Cambridge, Massachusetts · United States