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Second Fridays Program Archive

Activate your weekend!

Jump-start your weekend with the MIT Museum. Get up close and personal with Kismet the Robot, or see the world in 3-D through our one-of-a-kind holography exhibit. Enjoy performances, demonstrations, and lectures throughout our galleries.

Mix and mingle; relax and unwind.

Join us for our newest after-hours program series.

5:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.
Second Friday of every month.
Free admission to the galleries, plus additional activities.

Second Fridays Program Archive:

2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | Detailed descriptions

2009
10/9	*Hands-on Activities* Create amazing light graffiti images using portable LEDs, build structures out of candy and everyday materials, or make a marble-sized roller coaster.
11/13	Theme: Nanotechnology Night Explore carbon nanotubes and virus batteries.
12/11	Theme: Celebrate Holography Debunking Hollywood's Holographs, GlowDoodle, and Luminous Windows 2010.
2010
1/8	Theme: Art and Animation! Explore animation through the ages.
2/12	Theme: Darwin Day Celebrate the life and work of Charles Darwin on the 201st anniversary of his birth!
3/12	Theme: Nautical Adventures Talks, demonstrations, hands-on activities, and more.
4/9	Theme: International Development Night Please join us for a fascinating expo and reception featuring some of the latest innovations and technologies surrounding international development at MIT.
5/7	Theme: MIT Authors Join members of the MIT faculty for book readings and discussions.
6/11	Theme: *Celebrating the Mind and Hand* Exhibit** Come to the Museum for your last chance to see our history of MIT exhibit, Mind and Hand: The Making of MIT Scientists and Engineers.
7/09	Free admission to the galleries. No additional activities for Summer 2010.
8/13	Free admission to the galleries. No additional activities for Summer 2010.
9/10	Free Admission to the Galleries Jump-start your weekend at the MIT Museum during our monthly free evening.
10/8	Featured Program: Laserfest 2010: The Laser at 50 Celebrate the 50th anniversary of the laser!
11/12	Featured Program: Video Games at MIT Meet some of the creative minds behind the Singapore-MIT GAMBIT Game Lab.
12/11	Featured Program: Light Expo Celebrate the opening of Luminous WIndows 2011.
2011
1/14	Featured Program: 150 and Beyond It's a Sesquicentennial Celebration at the MIT Museum!
2/11	Featured Program: Making Movies/Making Science Challenge your views of the world around you with video screenings from MIT’s DV Lab.
3/11	Featured Program: Nautical Night Come 'sea' the MIT Museum in a new way!
4/8	Featured Program: MIT Hacks Enjoy free admission at the Museum as we celebrate the history of hacking at MIT.
5/13	Featured Program: Reel World MIT Enjoy a night "behind the screens" at the MIT Museum.
6/10	Free admission to the galleries Jump-start your weekend at the MIT Museum during our monthly free evening.
7/8	Featured Program: Explore MIT Enjoy scavenger hunts in the Museum's award-winning MIT 150 Exhibition.
8/12	Featured Program: Summer Sampler Find out what happens at the MIT Museum over the summer!
9/9	Featured Program: Starbound with Joe Haldeman Join MIT author Joe Haldeman for an evening of literature and conversation at the MIT Museum.
10/14	Featured Program: Feel the Heat Presenters from MIT Lincoln Laboratory present an evening of hot science and engineering.
11/11	Featured Program: Lights, Cameras, Actions Celebrate the intersection of art and technology with hands-on demonstrations and light projection experiments at the MIT Museum.
12/9	Featured Program: A Farewell to MIT 150 Join us for a final celebration of the MIT 150 Exhibition during our monthly free evening.
2012
1/13	Ready, Set, ZOOM! Zoom into the new year with a showcase of high-speed engineering projects by MIT students and alumni.
2/10	Spacewar! Turns 50 Celebrate the 50th anniversary of this Spacewar! with a larger-than-life celebration of this influential game.
3/9	Nautical Night Celebrate MIT and the sea at MIT Museum's third annual Nautical Night.
4/13	Rivers of Ice The MIT Museum welcomes to you to the public unveiling of Rivers of Ice: Vanishing Glaciers of the Greater Himalaya.
5/11	Abbott in the Photographic Landscape Get an insider's view of the gallery's inaugural exhibition, featuring revolutionary physics imagery from American photographer Berenice Abbott.
6/8	No special programs Due to MIT Commencement activities, ONLY the first floor exhibits will be open to the public.
Fri. 7/13	Superstition Mission Don't be afraid – enjoy Friday the 13th at the MIT Museum as you test your detective skills at the Second Fridays Superstition Mission!
Fri. 8/10	Slide Rule Olympics Celebrate calculation and computation with slide rules this summer at the MIT Museum.
Fri. 9/14	International Design Center Showcase Meet Dan Frey, MIT Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Co-Director of the Singapore-MIT International Design Center, and his team as they demonstrate use of cutting-edge tools (think 3-D printers!) that help engineers experiment with and test their engineering ideas.
Fri. 10/12	MIT Takes On Cancer Join researchers from the David H. Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research at MIT for a series of exciting talks and hands-on demonstrations of ideas with the potential to change the way the world thinks about, diagnoses, and treats cancer.
Fri. 11/9	Gestural Engineering With Arthur Ganson Meet Arthur Ganson and tour the Museum's newly-expanded gestural engineering gallery.
Fri. 12/14	Safe Skies and Little Black Boxes Explore new technologies and meet the team behind the MIT Museum's newest Sampling MIT exhibit.
2013
Fri. 1/11	Hello Holography Exhibit curator Seth Riskin will lead tours of the MIT Museum's popular display holography exhibition, while museum educators present hands-on activities and demonstrations exploring the scientific principles behind these amazing images.
2/8	Catalyst Collaborative@MIT Presents Sila Join actors, director, and writer at the MIT Museum for a special preview of this new play in development.
3/8	Nautical Night Celebrate MIT and the sea at MIT Museum's fourth annual Nautical Night.
4/12	Compass Points: Joël Tettamanti Get an insider's glimpse of our newest photographic exhibition.
5/10	D-Lab Project Showcase Come see how MIT students are developing technologies that make an impact in our world!
6/14	Through the Listening Glass: A Concert by the MIT Glass Band Immerse yourself in a tapestry of glass-blown music.
Detailed Program Descriptions 2009/2010 \| 2010/2011 \| 2011/2012 \| 2012/2013

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Second Fridays Program Archive

Join us for our newest after-hours program series.

Second Fridays Program Archive:

2009

2010

2011

2012

2013

Detailed Program Descriptions