Multimedia

Last year the museum set about making a short movie about the Museum. Hear from MIT Museum Director about the plans for new programs and the vision behind the Mark Epstein Innovation Gallery that opened in September '07. Other links on this page take you inside the famous Friday After Thanksgiving Event attended by 1,500 people every year, and inside some students' heads. Hear what it's like to be part of the MIT community.

	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. Produced in Spring, 2007.
	2007 10th Anniversary Friday After Thanksgiving Event In this short live action recording, watch as ping pong balls, ducks, marbles, legos and a host of other simple and funny elements move forward to trigger what is certainly one of the region's biggest chain reactions, and one of our most treasured holiday traditions. Every year maestro and artist Arthur Ganson provides a message in his surprise ending.
	Soap Box This salon styled evening of a short talk with MIT scientists includes thoughtful queries from live audience members – from those at the museum and from those watching the webcast. We have here archives of the webcast, and edited versions of the programs, featured on MIT World.
	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.
	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.
	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
	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Correspondence Project at Cambridge University in Great Britain this play is a lively interpretation of previously unpublished letters.