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Introducing the world-leading researchers, designers, and innovators behind the scenes of the inaugural MIT Future Fest, September 30–October 4, on the MIT campus in Cambridge, MA.
Tickets go live in June — sign up now for early access and a discount at MITFutureFest.org
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Announcing MIT Future Fest: a new festival inviting you to participate in the next era of science, technology, and human understanding, September 30–October 4, 2026, on MIT’s campus in Cambridge, MA. Tickets go live in June. Sign up at MITFutureFest.org
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Presented by the MIT Museum with @techreview and @MITDesignAcad the inaugural edition brings together @MIT President Sally Kornbluth, Paola Antonelli, Carlo Ratti, Hugh Herr, @SkylarTibbits, Danielle Wood, Daniel Sundlin, Behnaz Farahi, Ana Rajčević , and more.
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Curious about painting? How about color-changing paintings?? I'm hosting this 3-week thermochromic painting workshop with the @MITMuseum! We provide the materials, no painting experience required 🎨 Make + take home a unique work of art!
tickets 👉 tickets.mitmuseum.org/events…
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🚨MIT Students, we want you! 🚨 Calling all MIT undergraduate and graduate students to apply for our Student Advisory Committee in support of the inaugural MIT Future Fest. .Learn more and apply here: hubs.la/Q044PrcY0
Application closes March 2, 2026.
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Discover the slow at our January After Dark. Featuring slug fest talks, slow fashion and bites from Scott Brother's Barbecue with drinks from Nashoba Valley Winery available for purchase. Learn more here: hubs.la/Q03YlQLN0
ALT Couple at Museum After Dark
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Buckle up, time travelers — it's going to get weird. December's After Dark is all about time travel.
Learn more and buy tickets -> mitmuseum.mit.edu/programs/m…
December 11
6pm - 9pm
$20 General Admission | Day-Of General Admission: $25 | $10 for MIT ID Holders
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What does time look like? Feel like?
Explore it in The Shape of Time, a 90-min workshop where physics meets creativity with MIT physicist Michele Reilly. Make your own “time souvenirs” inspired by the cosmos.
Dec 6, 3–4:30pm
Learn more: hubs.la/Q03VFdMH0
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This week, Jensen Huang argued that "everybody's jobs will be different" because of AI.
What will that mean for your job?
I'll talk with @davidautor and @ProfNeilT on Dec 2 at @MITMuseum. Come join us!
cap.csail.mit.edu/members/ev…
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Light doesn’t just brighten a space—it shapes how we experience it.
In Embodied Light by James Carpenter, a suspended optical device reflects the sky and transforms it into a shifting field of images.
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As sunlight changes, so does the installation—crisp reflections blending into soft shadows and subtle movement.
Step beneath it and watch the light unfold in real time. The more you look, the more the space reveals.
Photos by Melissa Blackall Photography.
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Buckle up, time travelers.
We’re screening Looper at the MIT Museum in partnership with the Boston Sci-Fi Film Festival!
Dec 5 | 7–9:30pm
$15 / $5 MIT ID
Tickets: mitmuseum.mit.edu/programs/t…
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“Lighten Up! On Biology and Time” at the @mitmuseum explores the connection between living organisms and the natural cycle of light and dark. The exhibition incorporates the work of 15 different artists, including Media Lab alum Adam Haar Horowitz. mitmuseum.mit.edu/exhibition…
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Shape your dreams with light and sound in Hotel Room #2: Communal Dreams—a 1-hour immersive experience developed by DUST, Carsten Höller, and Seth Riskin. Now at the @MITMuseum as part of the Lighten Up! exhibit.
Photo by Anna Olivella
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🧠✨ Sleep. Dream. Wake.
Join the @MITMuseum on Nov 13 (6–9 pm) for talks, art, and circadian games—including one by our CEO, @oliviawalch, that shows how light helps you wake up refreshed.
👉 mitmuseum.mit.edu/programs/m…
#SleepScience #CircadianRhythms #MITMuseum
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Discover how rhythm shapes the way we move, create, and keep time at our October After Dark.
Feel the African and Indigenous roots of today's blues rhythms with DC's Queen of the Blues, Carly Harvey.
Experience the energy of MIT Rambax, MIT's Senegalese Drum Ensemble.
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Then dive into sonic experimentation with musician and composer Jessica Shand, whose unique fusion of live performance and sound manipulation will transform how you keep the beat and hear the world around you.
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Drinks from Lamplighter and eats from Tandoor and Curry will be available for purchase.
October 9
6-9pm
18+
$20 General Admission, $10 MIT ID Holders
Tickets on sale now -> mitmuseum.mit.edu/programs/m…
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Dive into the fabric of spacetime with MIT physicists David Kaiser, Nergis Mavalvala, and Salvatore Vitale as they share the mind-bending science of gravitational waves at @MITMuseum mitmuseum.mit.edu/programs/m…
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