MIT Museum
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The MIT Museum is located in Cambridge Mass. It was established in 1971 to showcase scientific and technological discoveries related to Massachusetts Institute of Technology as well as artifacts related to the history of the Institute. The first floor has displays related to a wide variety of scientific fields as well as a gift and book shop. The larger second floor displays a vast array of robotics, machines, computers, videos, holographs, Lisp Machine and artificial intelligence artifacts, and Bernice Abbott’s photographs of discoveries in physics.

The museum offers hands on activities, demonstrations, and tours as well as self-guided touring of the exhibits. The museum also sponsors a multi-day science festival during April with numerous activities, performances, and a carnival. The museum also hosts an annual family event where teams each build a machine in a Rube Goldberg style. The day culminates with the machines all being linked together to create a chain reaction. This event is known as F.A.T.; the acronym for Friday After Thanksgiving.

The MIT museum offers something for all ages, exhibiting scientific and technological discoveries from the past and inspiring innovative thinking for the future.

MIT Museum

MIT Museum, founded in 1971, is the museum of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, located in Cambridge, Massachusetts. It hosts collections of holography, artificial intelligence, robotics, maritime history, and the history of MIT. Its holography collection of 1800 pieces is the largest in the world, though not all of it is exhibited. Currently, works of Harold Edgerton and Arthur Ganson are the two largest displays ongoing for a long time. Occasionally, there are various special exhibitions, often on the intersections of art and technology.

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIT Museum