Insanely Curious: Preserving MIT’s Past to Inspire the Future
When:
Saturday, Jun 27, 2026 2:00p -
4:00p
Saturday, Jun 27, 2026 2:00p -
4:00p
Where:
The Foundry
101 Rogers St.
Cambridge, MA 02142
Admission:
FREE
Hosted by:
Categories:
Innovation, Lectures & Conferences, Tech, University
Event website:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/insanely-curious-preserving-mits-past-to-inspire-the-future-tickets-1989030019331?aff=oddtdtcreator
Long Now Boston presents:
Why are things the way they are today? How did they come to be? How are they made?
The MIT Museum’s collection of over 1.5 million objects tells an unbelievable story of the history of science, technology, and engineering. Long Now Boston presents a fascinating talk on their amazing collection and how it narrates the deep story of where we are and where we're going.
The modern museum evolved from the privately owned, 17th century, “cabinets of curiosity”: idiosyncratic collections of natural history wonders. Today’s museums identify and collect objects of significance, preserving both tangible and intangible assets, from electronic communications to AI models.
The MIT Museum formed around its objects, systematically accumulating them for more than half a century. Their aim is not simply to document the achievements of MIT, but to tell the story of all the endeavors that the people of the Institute have engaged with in the 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries.
Florencia Pierri, Associate Curator of Science and Technology at the MIT Museum, is a scholar of 16th and 17th-century science. Pierri also has hands-on experience exploring the MIT Museum’s artifacts, which have been made and used by people who changed lives and history. Join Long Now Boston as Pierri tells the story of the objects, the people, and the transformations sparked by both.
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