Multimedia - Video/Audio

MIT Museum: Ideas in the Making

This short film introduces you to the MIT Museum. Meet the people behind the exhibits and find out what draws people from around the world to this unique museum.

Holography and Oceanography at the MIT Museum

MIT News at Noon

Network. Learn. Engage. This lunchtime series, presented in collaboration with the MIT News Office, allows members of the Cambridge community to "take a break for breaking news." Read articles and view videos to learn about the latest work coming out of MIT.

Friday After Thanksgiving Chain Reaction

In these short live action recordings, watch as ping pong balls, ducks, marbles, legos and a host of other simple and funny elements move forward to trigger what is certainly the region's biggest chain reactions, and one of our most treasured holiday traditions. Every year maestro and artist Arthur Ganson provides commentary and a surprise ending to the mega Rube Goldberg machine.

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Soap Box

This salon style evening of a short talk with MIT scientists includes thoughtful queries from audience members – from those at the museum and from those watching the live webcast. Watch archives of the webcast, or view edited versions of the programs on MIT World.

The Work of Arthur Ganson

Machine With 11 Scraps of Paper, © 1999 Arthur Ganson
Machine with Wishbone © Arthur Ganson
Cory's Yellow Chair, © 1997 Arthur Ganson

Boston Behind the Scenes looks at the MIT Museum

Boston Behind the Scenes is a critically-acclaimed podcast that looks at the people and places that make Boston the unique city that it is. Through interviews with prominent (and not-so-prominent) Bostonians, the show brings you inside the lives of the people who make this city tick.

Life in the Universe: Are We Alone?

Are We Alone? That question has perplexed humanity for centuries. Perhaps scientists are getting closer to the answer; during four evenings of discussion as biologists, astronomers, geologists, chemists and anthropologists shared their insights with you as they explained some of their latest research about life on other planets, as well as on our own.

Lunch with a Laureate

During the Cambridge Science Festival the MIT Museum hosted free lunchtime discussions with award-winning MIT scientists, including Nobel laureates and MacArthur "genius" fellows.

Energy Night at the MIT Museum

ZigZag, MIT's own video news magazine, reports on one of the MIT Museum's highlight annual events, Energy Night @ the Museum, sponsored by the MIT Energy Club.

Re:Design

In February '08 the MIT Museum presented Re:Design, A Dramatization of the Correspondence of Charles Darwin and Asa Gray. Written by Craig Baxter and produced by the Darwin Correspondence Project at Cambridge University in Great Britain this play is a lively interpretation of previously unpublished letters.

Bridging the Gap between Genetics and the Environment

Featured in the MIT Museum's exhibit, Learning Lab: the Cell, this video profiles three scientists in the Center for Environmental Health Sciences and their research into the relationship between genes, environmental factors, and cancer.