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Object of the Month Exhibits | Special exhibits
Direct links to exhibits:
2009
- January: The Beacon of Progress, 1900
- February: Tech Songs, 1903
- March: Balloon Prints from the Vail Collection
- April: Objects and Plan of an Institute of Technology, 1860
- May: The Perceptual Form of the City: Study directed by Kevin Lynch and Georgy Kepes, 1954-1959
- June: The Blashfield Murals in Walker Memorial
- July: Project Whirlwind
- September: A 1912 Design for the 'New Technology'
- October: Photograph: Junior Varsity Crew, 1924
- November: Galileo's Sidereus Nuncius
2008
- January: Watercolors by Eleanor Manning O’Connor, 1912
- February: Letter from Mayor Curley to MIT President Compton, 1948
- March: MIT Wind Tunnel, Photograph, ca. 1914
- April: Letter from Massachusetts Governor John A. Andrew to William Barton Rogers, March 9, 1861
- May: The Van de Graaff Generator, 1933
- June: The Telephone Banquet, 1916
- July: What I Did on My Summer Vacation: Diary of Robert Hallowell Richards, 1873
- August: Vannevar Bush Letter about the Physics of Baseball, 1965
- September: Katharine Dexter (McCormick), Class of 1904: 'My Preparation for the M.I.T.'
- October: Report: 'On the Making of Silk Purses from Sows' Ears,' 1921
- November: Chart from MIT-Club of Rome 'Project on the Predicament of Mankind,' 1972
- December: The Ellen H. Richards Memorial Home Economics Calendar, 1913
2007
- January: Charles Wheatstone's 'Harmonic Diagram,' 1824
- February: MIT and Project Apollo: C. S. Draper's bid for space, 1961
- March: VooDoo, vol. 1, no. 1 (March 1919): Student Humor at MIT
- April: The Rogers Building, Boston, 1866-1938
- May: Vannevar Bush Letter about the Physics of Baseball, 1965
- June: 1879 Drawing from 'The Log of the Dorian'
- July: Advertisement: The Suitcase House, ca. 1945
- August: Photograph: Flight of Daedalus from Crete to Santorin, 1988
- September: MIT Entrance Exam, 1869-70
- October: Sputnik, James R. Killian, and the US Response to Soviet Space Science, 1957
- November: Sonar Chart 1964: From Harold Edgerton's Search for Spanish Armada Wreck, Tobermory Bay, Scotland
- December: MIT's First Ph.D.'s, 1907
2006
- January: The Rogers Laboratory of Physics
- February: Harbor View: Radar Training at MIT, 1941-1945
- March: Letter from Andrew Wyeth to Catherine Stratton, 1960
- April: Greetings on the Occasion of MIT's Centennial in 1961
- May: A Whimsical Map of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1944-5
- June: 25th Reunion of the Class of 1888
- July: Photograph of Giant Squid Used in F. O. Schmitt's Animal Nerve Cell Research, 1965
- August: Theodore Roosevelt's Letter to John Ripley Freeman regarding the Panama Canal, 1908
- September: Physical Science Study Committee, 1956
- October: MIT Community Players: The Madwoman of Chaillot, 1958
- November: Historical Patent Records from the Blatchford, Seward and Griswold Collection (1841-1910)
- December: MIT's Founder, William Barton Rogers
2005
- January: Illustration from Report on Van de Graaff Generator, 1933
- February: Photograph from Asilomar: International Conference on Recombinant DNA Molecules, February 1975
- March: Norbert Wiener Meets Albert Einstein: Letter from Wiener to His Sister Bertha, 1925
- April: Cosmic Ray Observations in Eritrea: Research Notes of Bruno Rossi, 1933
- May: X-ray Used in MIT Linguistics Research, 1951
- June: Alumni Petition Opposing MIT-Harvard Merger, 1904-05
- July: 50th Anniversary of the Dedication of the Chapel and Kresge Auditorium, 1955
- August: Chart from MIT-Club of Rome 'Project on the Predicament of Mankind,' 1974
- September: Tech Talk Announcement of New MIT Senior Staff, 1971
- October: Stained Glass Design from the Gaffield Collection, 1885
- November: Theses in MIT's DSpace
- December: Resource for Energy Research: The Peter E. Glaser Papers, 1944-2000
2004
- January: Allen Hazen's Photograph Album | World Engineering Congress, Tokyo | October-November 1929
- February: Photograph by Timothy O’Sullivan, 1869: Geological Exploration of the Fortieth Parallel
- March: Katharine Dexter (McCormick), Class of 1904
- April: Letter from Massachusetts Governor John A. Andrew to William Barton Rogers, March 9, 1861
- May: Technique No. 1 (1885): MIT's First 'Annual'
- June: Score of MIT's Tech Show, 1954
- July: Letter from Boston Mayor Kevin White to MIT President Jerome Wiesner, 1974
- August: MIT Field Day Program: August 28, 1943
- September: Massachusetts Institute of Technology Entrance Examination, 1869-70
- October: Frontispiece of Pamphlet on Mesmerism: Traces du Magnétisme, 1784
- November: Engineering Your Research: Finding Aids for Archives Collections
- December: 'Fragments of Notes of Travel' - June 20 - August 23, 1849
2003
- May: Thomson Electric Welding Co. Catalog, ca. 1890
- June: SOUVENIR PROGRAM Alumni Dedication Reunion
- July: Photograph, June 20, 1898, | Siphon, Sandy Pond | Wachusett Dam Construction
- August: Sketch Map of Boston, 1955: Notes from Kevin Lynch's Image of the City Project
- September: Photograph: Flight of Daedalus From Crete to Santorin, 1988
- October: Photograph: Junior Varsity Crew, 1924
- November: Surficial Geology Map of Quincy, Massachusetts, 1964
- December: Model of the Wright Brothers' Airplane
2001
- January: Balloon Prints from the Vail Collection
- February-March: MIT's Smallest Books
- April: Artistry in Fashion - M.I.T. Dames Fashion Show Poster 1961
- May: World War II Nighttime Aerial Reconnaissance Photograph, March 15, 1944
- June: 1879 Drawing from 'The Log of the Dorian'
- July - August: What I Did on My Summer Vacation - Diary of Robert Hallowell Richards, 1873
- September: Advertisement: The Suitcase House, ca. 1945
- October: Report: On the Making of Silk Purses from Sows' Ears, 1921
- November: Cyril Stanley Smith's 1976 Metallurgical Report on 'Francis Drake's Brass Plate'
- December: The Tech - December 20, 1901
2000
- January: The Beacon of Progress, 1900
- February: Letter from Mayor Curley to MIT President Compton, 1948
- March: MIT Wind Tunnel
- April: Watercolors by Eleanor Manning O'Connor
- May: Solar Eclipse, May 28, 1900 - Photograph of Corona, by Harrison W. Smith
- June: Sonar chart, 1964
- July - August: Vannevar Bush Letter about the Physics of Baseball, 1965
- September: Aeronautics in 1919 - Postcard of Hunsaker's NC-4 Flying Boat
- October: Tech Songs - The M.I.T. Kommers Book 1903
- November: John Ripley Freeman's Study For New Buildings for MIT
- December: Objects and Plan of an Institute of Technology
1999
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