Massachusetts Institute of Technology / MIT Museum
Building N51 265 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02139
Open Daily 10am – 5pm / Closed Major Holidays
The MIT Museum is open today, Sunday, April 21. Cambridge Science Festival events will proceed as listed here.
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Contact Josie Patterson
617-253-4422, josiep@mit.edu
Cost: $3 Reservation fee per tour
Contact: 617-547-4252 or www.cambridgearchives.org
Space is limited. To reserve a spot, please visit www.cambridgearchives.org
Cambridge, MA – June 13, 2012 - For the fourth year in a row, Cambridge archives will open their doors and invite the public in to see the rare items that are rarely seen. Residents and visitors will be given the opportunity to see inside twelve archives. The fourth annual Open Archives Tour will feature tours inside cultural, City, Harvard University and MIT archives on four separate days.
Each year, a theme is picked for the tours. This year, the event's theme is Famous and Infamous, and each archive will interpret this in their own way and delve into their collections to display related materials, including photographs, correspondence, ephemera, and more.
"This is the largest archives tour in America and a unique opportunity to see some great items from our collections, see how this material is processed and used, and talk to the professionals who are passionate about this history," said Gavin W. Kleespies of the Cambridge Historical Society. Alyssa Pacy of the Cambridge Room at the Public Library added, "Cambridge is a really unusual city in terms of the number of organizations that are collecting and holding archival material, and this is an amazing chance to peek behind the scenes in twelve institutions. Only in Cambridge!"
MIT MUSEUM Building N51 265 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02139
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