STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, Math)

Come on your own, with friends, or bring the whole family to the museum for a special week of programming.
Free with admission unless otherwise noted.

Join us as award-winning storyteller Motoko tells delightful folktales and leads hands-on origami activities.

Meet a swimming, quacking friend at a duck-themed story time, learn about duck behavior and anatomy, and do a themed activity!

In honor of Earth Day, spend your afternoon at the Library creating your own terrarium.

Interested in biology and bioengineering? Want to meet students and scientists studying these topics? Join us at the MIT Museum on April 26 for Slices and Splices!

Join us for a morning walk at one of the most renowned birdwatching spots in Cambridge, Mount Auburn Cemetery!

Join us for a 60-minute puppet-making workshop following the performance of, Enchanted Castle, by Rosalita's Puppets.

Build a crankie storytelling machine. Explore stop-motion animation with cut paper. This program is designed for school-age children and their grown-ups. 

We invite children and their grown-ups to join us for 20-25 minutes of songs, stories, and rhymes about taking care of our planet!

Join us as we learn to make unique and creative books using paper, scissors, and a little bit of glue.

Join us for a special matinée screening of Lilo & Stitch as part of the MA Space Week 2025 Space Film Festival!

Come to the Library to create something special!

Free event at the Cambridge Public Library.

Come celebrate MIT Museum's Inaugural DNA Day Celebration on April 26, 2025.

What's a zine?

Are you curious about poop?

Birding 101: No matter where we are, we are always in nature.

Kids in 6th, 7th and 8th grade can come to the Library to make light-up crafts out of paper, fabric and LED lights. Snacks provided. No registration necessary.

It's a weekly block party!

Interested in technology and art?

Our next Design Redefined explores how empathy-driven AI can positively impact society.

Experience Stephen Benton's "rainbow" holograms in Optiker, an intimate exhibition that examines the intersection of light and vision.

This event series challenges your perception of design as a process of enhancing aesthetics, usability, or marketability, moving you to deeper understanding of its power as a tool for change.

MIT is not a place so much as it is a unique collection of exceptional people.

How do you draw a picture of something you've heard about but never seen? How do you see it in the first place?

Teen Science Cafés are exciting events connecting local high school students with scientists and each other.

The irony of artificial intelligence is that it inspires new perspectives on human intelligence.