314 Main Street, Cambridge The MIT Museum, not unlike the Smithsonian, began as “MIT’s attic,” a place for all of the artifacts, models, and documents the Institute had accumulated since its founding in 1861. It was long housed in a former radio factory on the northern edge of MIT’s campus, near Central Square. Today, in its new location in the center of Kendall Square, the museum functions as a gateway to MIT, turning the Institute “inside out” and making its work “more accessible and more visible,” in the words of longtime director John Durant. Guest speaker John Durant, Director of the MIT Museum from 2005 to 2023

Googling Cambridge

Welcome to the official audio companion to the Innovation Trail, a walking tour in Boston and Cambridge, Massachusetts that takes you across roughly two miles of dense urban streetscape and 400 years of scientific, technical, medical, and entrepreneurial advances. With the help of guide and narrator Carmichael Roberts and a galaxy of guest experts and tech celebrities, you'll learn about the people, ideas, and inventions — from the telephone to messenger RNA vaccines — that have long set Boston and Cambridge apart as world capitals of innovation.

Most visitors start walking the Innovation Trail at 30 School Street in Boston, near the Park Street T stop. If you're accessing this guide through a podcast player, you'll see that the segments start there with "Patent Pioneer" and proceed west to Cambridge. (See http://theinnovationtrail.org for an interactive map.) But you can also begin the Trail from the Cambridge side, at 810 Main Street, and start with "The Last Candy Factory" episode and go in reverse order! 

The names of each stop on this guide correspond to those on our website, so you can also start the Trail at any stop, and walk as much as you have time for. The Trail includes four museums with regular operating hours, and we encourage you to stop in and explore any of them that pique your interest.

Produced by Wade Roush: https://www.waderoush.com