Massachusetts Institute of Technology / MIT Museum
Building N51 265 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02139
Open Daily 10am – 5pm / Closed Major Holidays

NOTE: Special schedule on Thursday, May 23. See our Hours & Admission page for details.

Hart Nautical Gallery

Ship Models: The Evolution of Ship Design

Forty of the Museum's finest full-hull ship models depict one thousand years of ship building, from a fifteenth century iron-clad warship to the swiftest clipper ships. Also included is an extraordinary model of N.G. Herreshoff's Reliance – winner of the 1903 America's Cup.

Mechanical Engineering @ MIT

MIT Museum's Hart Nautical Collections were formed in 1924 under MIT's Department of Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering, which was renamed the Department of Ocean Engineering in the 1970s. In 2005, Ocean Engineering merged with the Department of Mechanical Engineering to become one of seven major research focus areas.

The Mechanical Engineering @ MIT exhibition opens on April 9, 2011 and provides a broad overview of the fascinating range of research in the Department of Mechanical Engineering.

Bioengineering
Improving Human Health and Society with Emerging Engineering Technologies
Control, Instrumentation and Robotics
The Science and Design of Complex Systems for Human Service
Design Manufacturing and Product Design
Creativity, Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Sustainable Product Engineering
Energy Science and Engineering
Technologies for Efficient and Clean Energy Conversion and Utilization
Micro and Nano Engineering
Small Scale Technologies for Global Scale Applications
Mechanics: Modeling, Experimentation, and Computation (MMEC)
The Foundational Physics of Mechanical Engineering
Ocean Science and Engineering
Technologies for Exploring, Protecting, and Efficient Use of the Oceans

MIT Museum Home Exhibitions Hart Nautical Gallery

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Contact

MIT Museum's Hart Nautical Gallery
55 Massachusetts Avenue, Building 5
Cambridge, MA 02139

Open Daily: 10:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m

Free admission

Kurt Hasselbalch
Curator, Hart Nautical Collections
Phone: 617.253.5942
Fax: 617.258.9107
E-mail: kurt@mit.edu

Detail of an outstanding all-metal model of N.G. Herreshoff's Reliance commissioned for the MIT Museum by Mr. & Mrs. John K. Dema and completed by Richard De Vynck in 1999.