Snapshots looking back at 50 years
Moments in time that provide snippets of the variety and velocity of the museum’s history.
This video was originally presented as an installation to celebrate the MIT Museum's 50th Anniversary.
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0:00 - Introduction
0:10 - The first object added to the museum's collection
0:25 - Celebrating the graphic designers of MIT
0:42 - Robots and beyond
0:57 - Banjos
1:12 - “The Enemy” VR experience
1:30 - Holograms
1:46 - Architecture collection
1:58 - Charles Woodbury and his art
2:15 - Slide rules
2:27 - MIT Hacks
2:42 - The Cambridge Science Festival
2:56 - Recreating Edgerton’s bullet through the apple photograph
3:15 - MIT 150th anniversary exhibition
3:31 - CAVS 50th anniversary exhibition
3:44 - MIT Museum Studio and Compton Gallery
4:04 - Renamed from MIT Historical Collections
4:24 - Lady Gaga visits the MIT Museum
4:44 - Partying with the MIT Museum
5:03 - Ellen Swallow Richards exhibition
5:24 - Friday After Thanksgiving chain reaction
5:45 - Soapbox presenter series
6:06 - Kurtz Gallery for Photography and Berenice Abbott
6:26 - The Polaroid Project exhibition