The MIT Museum, dedicated to the history of invention and innovation that sprang from the university, used to be housed in a nondescript converted warehouse off campus. But now it has a prominent new home just off Kendall Square, the hub of Cambridge’s booming tech sector, at the gateway to the school.
Occupying three floors of a mixed-use tower, the 56,000-square-foot museum is something of an architectural matryoshka doll: the 17-story building was designed by Weiss/Manfredi; the museum by Höweler + Yoon; and the industrial-chic exhibition design by Wendy Evans Joseph. With so many voices, conveying a sense of what Eric Höweler calls “MIT-ness” was essential.
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