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MIT Museum · Kendall Square, Cambridge

Split | Second

Now showing19 February 2026 – 4 January 2027·$20

Instruments and artworks spanning 340 years across four sections - Earth Time, Mechanical Time, Electric Time, Atomic Time - tracing how precise timekeeping became a negotiated human construct.

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Installation view with framed artworks hung salon-style on the walls and three people looking at the art

2026 Student Lending Art Program Exhibition and Lottery

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A large, textured, brown cardboard sculpture encased within a green wooden grid structure, in a room with bright green walls and an orange t-shirt hanging from the ceiling

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MIT List Visual Arts Center

A large vitrine encasing black and white photographs in the middle of an open atrium, with a colourful illustrated timeline adhered to the wall behind

40 Years of Contemporary Art

MIT List Visual Arts Center

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