Massachusetts Institute of Technology has long been a legend. You cant imagine the technological progress without Inventions that were born here. Even the concept of a hacker came out of the walls of MIT. Such an institute can't exist without a museum. The modern exhibition halls should be located in the newly created Kendall Gateway building. The planned opening date of the new museum is spring 2022. The collection of the MIT Museum consists of primary research documents and publications. Over one million artefacts, prints, curiosities, technical archives, drawings, photographs, films and holograms tell the story of MIT achievements from the very foundation in 1861 to the latest innovations.
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This short walk through Harvard and Cambridge will introduce us to some of the most iconic sites of a renowned world university. First, we learn how the student fraternity introduced a unit of measurement equal to the height of the director of the Institute of Standards. Next, we will visit the most famous bookstore. Next, we will learn how the fate of the ancient tomes and the death of the Titanic are connected. Finally, let's touch on the history of creating a sewing machine and a telephone and end the trip in the town of Watertown - one of the first colonies of New England, notorious for the terrorist attack on the Boston Marathon.
