List Visual Arts Center
The contemporary art museum at MIT, the List Center presents a dynamic program of six to nine special exhibitions in its galleries annually.
Experimentation, risk-taking and imaginative problem solving
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MIT Museum
Collecting, preserving, and exhibiting materials that serve as a resource for the study and interpretation of the intellectual, educational, and social history of MIT.
Wiesner Student Art Gallery
A place for students to express and exhibit their artistic endeavors, both academic and co-curricular
Architecture Galleries
The Wolk, Keller, and PLAZmA Digital Galleries managed by the Department of Architecture
Visiting Artists
Internationally acclaimed artists come to campus and engage with MIT's creative community
For Students
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Public Art Collection
MIT is home to more than 3,500 artworks including public sculptures, prints, drawings and more.
Discounted Tickets and Memberships
Free and discounted admission for MIT students to Boston-area art museums and performances
Architectural Design
One of the four original departments at MIT and the first signal that MIT would not be narrowly defined in science and technology.
Program in Art, Culture, and Technology (ACT)
Facilitates exploration of art’s broad, complex, global history and conjunction with culture, science, technology and design
Student Art Association
Art classes offered in photography, ceramics, drawing and more
Resources for Faculty
Funding, collaboration, arts tickets for students and more
Creative Arts Competition
An annual contest designed to encourage arts-focused startups at the Institute
Comparative Media Studies/Writing
An innovative program that applies critical analysis, collaborative research and design across a variety of media arts, forms and practices.
History, Theory and Criticism (HTC)
The history of architecture and art, as well as the theoretical and political presuppositions informing that history.
Program in Media Arts and Sciences (Media Lab)
Actively promoting a unique, antidisciplinary culture, the MIT Media Lab goes beyond known boundaries and disciplines, encouraging the most unconventional mixing and matching of seemingly disparate research areas.
Music Program
Music history and culture, performance and music theory
Theater Arts
An imaginative and rigorous engagement with the arts and disciplines of theater: acting, directing, playwriting, design, production and scholarship.
Literature
Problems of narrative, aesthetics, genre and media are explored through a broad array of written, oral, and visual forms ranging from the ancient world to the 21st century.
Open Documentary Lab
Brings technologists, storytellers and scholars together to advance the new arts of documentary.
Creative Arts Competition rewards arts entrepreneurship at MIT
Roots Studio digitizes art from rural villages and transforms it into high-end and storied products
Maker Space
Find space and tools to create
Arts Scholars
Bringing together students who are passionate about exploring a diverse array of arts