🌊 Sensing Oceans —Sep 30, 2026 – Feb 21, 2027
A new MIT Museum exhibition on how we sense an ocean we can’t reach — a robot built to swim like a tuna, glass sea creatures and immersive light-and-sound art. Free through Sunday, October 4.
On view September 30, 2026 – February 21, 2027.
MIT Museum, 314 Main St, Cambridge.
The museum is offering free admission September 30 – October 4, 2026, during MIT Future Fest. Posted hours: Friday and Saturday 10am–5pm, Sunday 10am–6pm. After that, regular admission applies — see the museum’s own page.
RoboTuna, an MIT robot developed to study how fish move through water, and footage from Mesobot, an underwater vehicle. The centrepieces are the US premiere of two installations by Marshmallow Laser Feast: Seeing Echoes in the Mind of the Whale, a sensory experience set in the worlds of whales and dolphins, and Plankton Temple, a kinetic sculpture of light, glass and sound.
Historic glass marine-invertebrate models by Leopold and Rudolf Blaschka, deep-sea photography by Harold Edgerton, and work by Julius von Bismarck.
The museum publishes no age range for the exhibition. Robots and glowing glass tend to pull in curious kids, but judge it by your own child.
From September 30, 2026 to February 21, 2027 at the MIT Museum in Cambridge.
The museum is offering free admission September 30 – October 4, 2026. After that, regular admission applies; check the MIT Museum’s own page for current prices.
A robot built to study how fish swim, underwater vehicle footage, historic glass sea-creature models, deep-sea photography and immersive light-and-sound installations.
The museum doesn’t publish an age range for the exhibition.
📅 Planning the rest of the weekend? See what else is on in our family events calendar and the Cambridge kids’ activities guide.
📷 Image courtesy of Marshmallow Laser Feast, via the MIT Museum on Instagram. Dates and programme from the MIT Museum’s exhibition page; free-day hours from the MIT Future Fest programme.