Second Fridays Program Archive

Hands-on Activities

Create amazing light graffiti images using portable LEDs, build structures out of candy and everyday materials, or make a marble-sized roller coaster.

Theme: Nanotechnology Night

Explore carbon nanotubes and virus batteries.

Theme: Celebrate Holography

Debunking Hollywood's Holographs, GlowDoodle, and Luminous Windows 2010

Theme: Art and Animation!

Explore animation through the ages.

Theme: Darwin Day

Celebrate the life and work of Charles Darwin on the 201st anniversary of his birth!

Theme: Nautical Adventures

Talks, demonstrations, hands-on activities, and more.

Theme: International Development Night
Please join us for a fascinating expo and reception featuring some of the latest innovations and technologies surrounding international development at MIT.

Theme: MIT Authors

Join members of the MIT faculty for book readings and discussions.

Theme: Celebrating the Mind in Hand Exhibit

Come to the Museum for your last chance to see our history of MIT exhibit, Mind in Hand: The Making of MIT Scientists and Engineers.

Free admission to the galleries.

No additional activities for Summer 2010.

Free admission to the galleries.

No additional activities for Summer 2010.

Featured Program: Video Games at MIT

Meet some of the creative minds behind the Singapore-MIT GAMBIT Game Lab.

Featured Program: Light Expo

Celebrate the opening of Luminous WIndows 2011.

Featured Program: 150 and Beyond

It's a Sesquintenial Celebration at the MIT Museum!

Featured Program: Making Movies/Making Science

Challenge your views of the world around you with video screenings from MIT’s DV Lab.

Featured Program: Nautical Night

Come 'sea' the MIT Museum in a new way!

Featured Program: MIT Hacks

Enjoy free admission at the Museum as we celebrate the history of hacking at MIT.

Featured Program: Reel World MIT

Enjoy a night "behind the screens" at the MIT Museum.

Free admission to the galleries

Jump-start your weekend at the MIT Museum during our monthly free evening.

Featured Program: Explore MIT

Enjoy scavenger hunts in the Museum's award-winning MIT 150 Exhibition.

Featured Program: Summer Sampler

Find out what happens at the MIT Museum over the summer!

Featured Program: Starbound with Joe Haldeman

Join MIT author Joe Haldeman for an evening of literature and conversation at the MIT Museum.

Featured Program: Feel the Heat

Presenters from MIT Lincoln Laboratory present an evening of hot science and engineering.

Featured Program: Lights, Cameras, Actions

Celebrate the intersection of art and technology with hands-on demonstrations and light projection experiments at the MIT Museum.

Featured Program: A Farewell to MIT 150

Join us for a final celebration of the MIT 150 Exhibition during our monthly free evening.

Ready, Set, ZOOM!

Zoom into the new year with a showcase of high-speed engineering projects by MIT students and alumni.

Spacewar! Turns 50

Celebrate the 50th anniversary of this Spacewar! with a larger-than-life celebration of this influential game.

Nautical Night

Celebrate MIT and the sea at MIT Museum's third annual Nautical Night.

Rivers of Ice

Details to be announced

Abbott in the Photographic Landscape

Details to be announced