The MIT Museum: Full of Wonder and Delight!

Hello, I am CiCi. I am 13 years old and I live in Cambridge, MA. Today we went to the MIT museum in Cambridge. We saw how the human brain worked, did coding on Scratch, looked at art and innovation done by local students. We also said goodbye to the robotics exhibit, which is going away after 19 years. They will be hosting a goodbye party soon where you can create our own robot to march in a goodbye robot parade.

I think you should also know that many museums and attractions in and around the Boston area are Free on Fridays all summer long. You can find out which ones are free from your local librarian or here:

https://www.bostonmagazine.com/arts-entertainment/2018/05/09/free-fun-fridays-2018-schedule-massachusetts/

This is Essy, I am 11 years old. Today we went to the MIT Museum. They have a great technology exhibit, where you can see what each of the things do. We drew pictures of the brain. On the first floor there is a big white thing that moves with no mechanical parts! Everything I did was fun and I hope I get to go back again soon.

Hey, I am KayZee and I am the mother of these two wonder young ladies. We have lived in the Boston area for nine years and although we have done many of the things in and around Boston, there are so many things to do that there are some things we have simply neglected or did not know about until we started looking into ALL the things we could do this Summer.

We began with a museum that is local to us in Cambridge, the MIT museum. This is a cute little museum right on Mass Ave between Central and Kendall Squares. It is not very big and is good if you only have a couple hours or don’t want to spend all day inside.

We checked the website before going and discovered in July and August you can get in free with your Cambridge Library Cards. So the song is true, “Having fun isn’t hard, when you have a Library Card.”

The girls headed directly up stairs where they spent time coding and talking to the attendants about the 3-D printer and the museum itself. The staff was amazing and kept my girls engaged for 15-20 mins. This is where CiCi learned all about the departure of the robots and the planned Robot Parade (which did result in a conversation about the They Might Be Giants Song by that name).

We spent quite bit of time in the section the girls called the Hall of Brains, which included pictures and interactive exhibits on the human brain; this is where we drew picture of parts of the brain.

The last thing we looked at on this floor was a hall full of machines. The room was dancing with machines, performing absolutely superfluous tasks, ultimately accomplishing nothing other than to delight and amaze the onlooker. Each one a unique and amazing beauty. Some of the machines were large and unwieldy and some of them were intricate and delicate, all of them were wondrous works of art.

Once we were finished with the upper floor we descended the musical stairs to the lower level where there was a giant white inflatable squid, for lack of a better description, that took up half the room. It moved and appeared to be breathing and can be seen through the window on street level.

We only spent a couple of hours in the Museum but it delighted and entertained us all. We will definitely go there again.