Museum of Science, Boston (Boston, Massachusetts)
Organization
Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:
Charles Hayden Planetarium Records
Collection
Identifier: A2018-02-01
Content Description
These records document the planning, funding, construction, and operation of the Charles Hayden Planetarium and related projects overseen by the Planetarium Department. Topics with significant coverage in these records include: the construction and renovation of the Planetarium building; the construction, installation, and maintenance of the Korkosz projector; and the planning, scripting, implementation, and marketing of Planetarium shows. Types of materials include: show scripts,...
Dates:
1934 - 2019
Engineering the Future Records
Collection
Identifier: A2025-09-01
Content Description
Engineering the Future is an educational program made with the goal of creating a high school engineering course that all students could enroll in, regardless of if they wanted to pursue engineering in postsecondary education, that could also be recognized as a high school laboratory science course. This collection contains the research, design, published materials, and study materials from the Engineering the Future (ETF) product: "Engineering the Future; Science, Technology, and the Design...
Dates:
1996 - 2019; Majority of material found within 2005 - 2009
H. Bradford Washburn, Jr. Papers
Collection
Identifier: A2018-01-01
Scope and Contents
This collection documents the professional life of Bradford Washburn: his work at the Museum of Science and his mountaineering work, including climbing, cartography, and photography. It includes correspondence, meeting records, manuscript material, published works, maps, photographs, and audiovisual material. More detailed Scope and Content information can be found within the series and subseries listings.
Dates:
1900 - 2014; Majority of material found within 1940 - 1980
Soviet Space Exhibition Records
Collection
Identifier: A2024-02-01
Content Description
The records in this collection document the creation, planning, funding, and implementation of the Soviet Space exhibition. Materials include correspondence, financial and legal documents, plans and drafts, and promotional and marketing materials. Photographic materials include photographs and contact sheets from Museum staff's scouting trips to Moscow, and color slides and prints of Museum displays and artifacts. The exhibition was a collaboration between the Museum of Science, Glavkosmos...
Dates:
1986 - 2011; Majority of material found within 1989 - 1990
Theater of Electricity Records
Collection
Identifier: A2022-07-01
Scope and Contents
This collection documents the history of the Theater of Electricity: the donation of the Van de Graaff Generator, funding efforts, exhibit ideas, administrative documents, and the development of educational programs. It includes correspondence, meeting records, building plans, personal notes, and photographs.
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1930 - 1999; 1887 - 2013
Additional filters:
- Subject
- Education -- Museums 2
- Museum buildings 2
- Museum exhibits 2
- Museums -- Planning 2
- Photographs 2
- Space sciences 2
- Aerial photographs 1
- Aerial surveys 1
- Aeronautics -- Soviet Union -- History 1
- Alaska -- Discovery and exploration 1
- Alaska -- Maps 1
- Amne Machin Mountains 1
- Annual reports 1
- Art and science 1
- Astronomy 1
- Astronomy -- History 1
- Boston (Mass.) -- Politics and government 1
- Cartography 1
- Cosmology 1
- Education -- Exhibitions 1
- Educational exhibits, Traveling 1
- Fund raising -- United States 1
- Impostors and imposture -- Alaska -- Denali, Mount -- History -- 20th century 1
- Lectures and lecturing 1
- Lunar eclipses 1
- Manned space flight -- History 1
- Maps 1
- Mountaineering -- Alaska -- Denali, Mount. 1
- Mountaineering -- Alps 1
- Mountaineering -- Arizona -- Grand Canyon 1
- Mountaineering -- Canada 1
- Mountaineering -- Everest, Mount (China and Nepal) 1
- Mountains -- Yukon 1
- Museum architecture 1
- Museum directors 1
- Museum finance 1
- Museum outreach programs 1
- Museum theater 1
- Museum visitors 1
- Museums -- Accounting 1
- Museums -- Administration 1
- Museums -- Educational aspects 1
- Museums -- Employees 1
- Museums -- Management 1
- Museums -- Marketing 1
- Museums -- Political aspects -- United States 1
- Museums -- Public relations 1
- Museums and people with disabilities 1
- Painting 1
- Photography 1
- Photography -- Negatives 1
- Planetariums 1
- Portable planetariums 1
- Projectors 1
- Science -- Study and teaching (Secondary) -- United States 1
- Science museums -- Educational aspects 1
- Scientific expeditions 1
- Slides (Photography) 1
- Solar eclipses 1
- Speeches, addresses, etc., American 1
- United States -- New Hampshire -- Squam Lake 1
- United States -- New Hampshire -- Squam Mountains 1 ∧ less
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