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From the Archives

From the beginning, William Barton Rogers, the founder and first President of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, included plans for an industrial technology museum in his concept of the Institute. This museum was to have been a cross between our modern exhibit museums and simple glass cases throughout the Institute displaying sample materials and machinery for use in classroom instruction. The following three excerpts selected from the William Barton Rogers Collection in the Institute Archives show how this idea pervaded the legislation and plans enabling establishment of MIT. Over the next century, numerous attempts were made to fulfill Rogers’ vision of an educational museum. Finally, in 1971, the MIT Museum was founded to provide a visual reminder, through its programs and exhibits, of the people and research that comprise the history of MIT.