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Smoots, smashed pianos and more: MIT 150+ exhibit opens

NNB was among the press invited to the preview of the MIT 150+ exhibit. The website went live today and the exhibit is open to the public tomorrow.

After a breakfast and a introduction from President Susan Hockfield, Deborah Douglas,the museums’ science and technology curator, gave a tour. Here’s what we saw, along with a bit of MIT’s fight song, “We Are the Engineers.”

From the exhibit website:

The MIT 150 Exhibition, the most expansive exhibition ever developed by the MIT Museum, is a unique exhibition made up of stories and objects that members of the MIT community helped to select, collect and make available to the public, many for the first time. The collaborative process in which nominations were sought, and votes tallied, yielded unexpected insights and ideas that spoke to the founding president’s vision of getting your hands dirty in the pursuit of truth. William Barton Rogers believed that teaching science should be a hands-on proposition. Because of that revolutionary idea, MIT has grown and thrived since 1861.

Click here from a video bu Andrew Phelps at WBUR which explains smoots and some of the other images above.

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