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Golfer in full swing, by Edgerton

On November 14th the MIT Museum will open a new display, Visionary Engineer, Harold Edgerton. The MIT Museum will showcase the new online archive that includes many of the images from the recently closed exhibition, Flashes of Inspiration, as well as thousands of other still and moving images from archives on the MIT campus.

Visit the new online Edgerton Collections Database

News Releases and Announcements

10.27.09	MIT Museum Hosts 12th Annual Friday After Thanksgiving (F.A.T.) Chain Reaction Event on November 27th
10.20.09	MIT Museum commemorates the work of Harold “Doc” Edgerton with the opening of Visionary Engineer, Harold Edgerton
10.04.09	It's Election Time -- Vote for the MIT 150 Exhibition!
8.25.09	Sampling MIT Connects Visitors to Ongoing MIT Research
8.20.09	Thin brick vault unveiled for first time at MIT Museum
6.10.09	40th Apollo Lunar Landing Anniversary exhibition, displays, artifacts at MIT Museum
5.5.09	Volvo Racing Videos to be Shown at MIT Museum on May 13
4.24.09	New exhibition featuring the work of scientist and artist Steve DiPaola opens April 25.
3.13.09	New exhibition featuring the work of structural artist Felix Candela opens April 2.
2.11.09	MIT Museum Launches Unique Anniversary Project
2.6.09	MIT Museum Forum on Holography
2.5.09	MIT Museum Schedule of New Exhibitions and Programs, Spring 2009
1.14.09	Darwin in Society: A day long symposium for educators and interested community members
12.24.08	Friday After Thanksgiving (FAT) Chain Reaction 2008 Video is now online!
11.4.08	Lighting Ceremony and Opening Celebration for new three-dimensional public art exhibit, viewable every evening from the street. Luminous Windows: Holograms for the 21st Century features new work by six acclaimed international artists.
9.23.08	Soap Box/Grassroots and Global: Technologies & Social Change
9.9.08	Red Lines, Death Vows, Foreclosures, Risk Structures: Architectures of Finance from the Great Depression to the Sub-Prime Meltdown, an exhibition by designer Damon Rich and the Center for Urban Pedagogy (CUP). September 9 - December 21, 2008 in the Compton Gallery
9.8.08	Innovation Night at the MIT Museum 5:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.
4.29.08	As part of the Cambridge Science Festival, swissnex Boston, the Swiss Consulate and the MIT Museum invite you to learn about climate change by taking part in the ThinkSwiss/MIT Museum Climate Change Walking Tour.
4.01.08	New Orleans 1867: Photographs by Theodore Lilienthal was recently published by Gary van Zante, curator of architecture and design at the MIT Museum.
3.18.08	Cambridge Science Festival launches second year! April 26 – May 5, 2008
3.18.08	Cambridge Science Festival Events at the MIT Museum include family day, Lunch with a Laureate, performances, tours and more
2.01.08	Soap Box: Creativity and Innovation Special Series features William Mitchell, David Berry, John Hockenberry, and Sherry Turkle
1.25.08	Re:Design theatrical performance at the MIT Museum/Evolution Performances & Talks Feb. '07
1.09.08	Urban Design and Civil Protest: A Contemporary Meditation in the Compton Gallery. Opens February 28 – June 9, 2008
Exhibit	Eight Einsteins
Exhibit	MIT & the Sea
Exhibit	Claude Shannon's Ingenious Machines

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