Polaroid Corporation Reviews

Very interesting museum! The mechanical room is additive! It's a bit small thou, we finished our visit in 1 hour

Little overpriced for what it is. Wouldn't recommend going unless it's a discount day. Basically 1 floor of displays and an oversized gift shop.

Interesting exhibitions of research performed at MIT and associated organizations throughout the years as well as several interpretive artistic exhibits. Cost of admission, $10, seems very high for what is offered.

Really nice for science lovers. Also great if you like boats.

Interesting and absolutely useful to stimulate creativity

we could have expected much better, for people who are specialists in science and technology. Museum. Didactic. On the other hand, an interesting part about the artistic aspects of science.

Nice place to visit if you have days left on your trip.

It had some interactive things that were interesting, but overall quite small and underwhelming. The gift shop with really cool though

Excellent museum that really shows some of the cooler aspects to the engineering that has built our modern world.

This museum is an inspiration....it will make you want to build stuff!

Maps said it s working till 6, but it was closed at 5. Boston trip ruined.

This is always a fun museum. The AI lab history is great

This place is so much fun! It's very thought-provoking. It will take you at least a couple of hours to get through everything. And it's not just for techies and Engineers. There's a lot of really interesting cultural things here of course with a link to technology. Parking as you can imagine is a nightmare though.

Fascinating small museum. Stopped in for a couple hours and saw some excellent and interesting exhibits. My kids (11 & 15) found it very interesting as well. The gift shop has some very amusing stuff.

As an MIT alum and museum lover, I am perhaps biased, but I always thought this museum was so cool. A lot of the exhibits are kinetic--you push a button and gears start moving, for example. A great way to spend an hour in Cambridge.

Bonus: near the bathrooms on the second floor (below the museum) is a great model train display.

Expensive. Not worth the price ($20). No edge technology. Nothing impressive. The only good thing was the artist expo... (

Really disappointed about what you would expect from the MIT advances. I d expected more student projects and at least a couple of displays about robotics. Unworthy

Idea hub was a great spot for kids and adults to get creative!

Pretty good if you have around an hour to kill, cool exhibitions even though there aren't a lot of them

Lot of kinetic sculptures, Holograms, Robotics and a set of good exhibits on Brain Research. They have good videos and kinetic sculptures can be operated. What I loved most is the gift shop. You need at least an hour to try and decide. Small store but good collection.. Outsiders pay $10...I think it is on the higher side given the number of exhibits... You don't have to pay just to visit the store...

It was interesting and affordable, though a tad underwhelming. They were still working on some new exhibits though so maybe on another day it would be better

Makes me wish I had gone to MIT... Loved the student and club exhibitions.

Unless you went to MIT, you probably won't understand half the stuff in this museum. However, it is very cool and you will be wowed.

There are a bunch of ways to get a discount on admission- so make sure to ask before you're a sucker.

The best part of the museum is the entry section with the musical stairs. It has a machine history section which is nice but the gallery part is not really nice

We visited during spring-break and the place was a little crowded. Many of the coat/bag check lockers didn't work. Fun activities for children.

My family had a fantastic visit today at the museum. From the minute we walked in Beth greeted us and was the best ambassador! Lots of cool exhibits from robotics to the Polaroid experience and nautical science made this a great place to visit at MIT!!

It was very much an art museum not a science or historical museum. MIT is known for science and engineering, it would have been nice to see more of that. STEM not STEAM!

Pretty interesting display of MIT's more publicly visible contributions with a nice side of art. Unfortunately the main hologram gallery has been removed. $5-$8 admission price with a small gift shop.

Very small, boring and not up to date at all. Good for old people who like stairs and architecture. Bossy staff and over priced.

Exhibits are engaging and varied. We had a very fun visit!

Free with MIT ID, worthwhile trip, interesting and unique exhibits

Great place to cisit for the family and learn about scientific principles like robotics and cell biology. Great collection of kinetic sculptures. Last Sunday of the month is free.

Wonderful yet small museum. The exhibits are detailed and some are interactive. A must see for techies, engineers, etc. Also, they provide student discounts!

Small, but to-the-point - an interesting combination of art and tech.

Highlights: early prototypes of a motley of robots created by MIT researchers and goofy kinetic sculptures designed by engineer/artist, Arthur Ganson.

I love everything about this place. If you consider yourself a bit of a geek, this is a must go place! Highly recommend going here if you visit Boston

They got cool stuff, but not worth the price of admission

Don't miss the daily activities for the kiddos at the makerspace or wherever it is the activity room is called.

Pretty cool museum with lots of fun interactive models and functional art pieces. Not sure it was worth the money but if you have extra cash maybe a cool place to check out for young adults and adults.

Small museum with few exhibitions. I didn't particularly like it.

It a self guided museum which very very small for the 10$ cost value. I think there would more value of just exploring the campus for free.

I hope in the very near future that the museum would offer self audio guide tour complementary with the cost of entry. As MIT can use get students built it for a school project.

Breath taking experience there is a Virtual Reality show; The Enemy, everyone should try that.

Very small but free!!!!! Show I happened across was WONDERFUL. This pic first floor, 2nd floor best.

I visited in 1995, at that time l saw some interesting things, but no Mickey Mouse or Pluto.

Small museum dedicated to some great contributors of the MIT and the tools used historically in the institute. The area with the kinetic and mechanical sculptures is really neat! The area dedicated to robotics could be improved.

Great museum very interesting exhibits and nice shop

Most of it is mostly for people interested in engineering, but I think everyone would love the Gestural Engineering exhibition, do not miss it if in Boston, also the robots on the ground floor are admirable!

The exposure is poor, I expected to see the wonders of technology, but no.

Not kept up to standards, the teaching here was lazy and I could see the super nerds loved it and I guess that's a good thing.

Great place for geeks and those that love them. I especially lived the musical stairs between the 1st and 2nd floor.

A good museam if you like tech and MIT. They host a lot of fun events.

Such amazing museum! This is the place, where engineering and art are closely intertwined and you don`t recognize where is a line between it - it`s blurred and you are involved into something wonderful.

I got totally disappointed when visited it. They opened 1.5 floors of exhibitions. The ground floor had only half area for exhibitions, mostly for internet explanation videos on a big and some small screens. The second biggest screen was holographic. The upper floor mostly had some old bared dead robots, showing the motors and circuits inside, but all dead. There was a dark room also showing holographic images smaller than the big one on the ground floor. But ironically the woman standing at the door was preventing visitors from taking photos and videos even without flash. It's just stupid since photographing doesn't affect the exhibitions at all, and the big screen on the ground floor was open to any cameras. I will never come back here to waste my time.

Really not a museum at all. Effectively a small art gallery of current student work. The really big discoveries of MIT are not even mentioned. Pretty disappointed!

I guess they're renovating/moving to bigger quarters, but I was really disappointed that the hacks exhibit was gone and the hologram exhibit was a mere shadow of it's former self.
The brain exhibit was really interesting, though.

Mind blowing collection of scientifically, technological, art stuff.

Generally takes 2-3 hours to absorb the place completely. If I remember it right, entry is 50% discounted for folks in college right now, for general crowd it is $10

Sharing a few videos to give a taste of gestural engineering projects shared on first floor during Aug 2018

Nothing special and I can't imagine how this museum is connected with MIT. It is pretty small without interesting technical things. Wasted money(10usd).

A stop for people who like machines. A disappointment for someone casually interested in science.

I went to the museum during my recent visit specifically to see the folding car prototype. By the time I finished with the first floor, I found some students setting up a virtual reality display for a children's group that would be coming in on the weekend. Much to my surprise the guy offered to let me play with it! This is the kind of thing where you're "playing" a sport against an opponent on a big screen while you're moving your arm to simulate, in this case, swinging a tennis racket. As a middle-aged woman with no kids I really enjoyed messing around with it, and it was nice of him to offer just because I stopped to watch what they were doing. Because of this, though, I skipped the other floor because I needed to get back. I saw what I went there for and had a little fun in addition, and I found the student work to be

The museum is quite small but exposition is amazing!

Interesting stuff, but pretty small. Id look for a specific exhibit of interest. That said, the Polaroid exhibit is great!

I expected something else. Very small and does not justify the time or the $ 10 entrance.

Disappointing. There are no more permanent exhibitions.

Great little museum to stop into. I'd say takes about 1-1.5 hours to go through. Cute gift store options. Robotics/engineering can meet artistry.

It's heaven for geeks like me. I really enjoyed the robot exhibition, as well as the animated sculptures that were inside.

Beautiful place.
Discount for students