List Visual Arts Center
Established in 1950, the List Visual Arts Center is the contemporary art museum of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. It is known for temporary exhibitions in its galleries located in the MIT Media Lab building, as well as its administration of the permanent art collection distributed throughout the university campus, faculty offices, and student housing.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Arts center
- Description: contemporary art museum on MIT campus
- Also known as: “MIT List Visual Arts Center | Albert and Vera List Visual Arts Center | Massachusetts Institute of Technology. List Visual Arts Center”
- Address: 20 Ames Street, Cambridge, MA 02139
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include MIT Museum and Wiesner Arts and Media Technology Building.
MIT Museum
Museum
The MIT Museum, founded in 1971, is part of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Massachusetts. It hosts collections of holography, technology-related artworks, artificial intelligence, architecture, robotics, maritime history, and the history of MIT. MIT Museum is situated 500 feet northeast of List Visual Arts Center.
Wiesner Arts and Media Technology Building
University building
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The Wiesner building houses the MIT Media Lab and the List Visual Arts Center and is named in honor of former MIT president Jerome Wiesner and his wife Laya.
Transparent Horizon
Work of art
Transparent Horizon is a 1975 black Cor-ten steel sculpture by Louise Nevelson, installed on the Massachusetts Institute of Technology campus, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Kendall Square and Wellington-Harrington.
Kendall Square
Locality
Kendall Square is a neighborhood in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. The square itself is located at the intersection of Main Street and Broadway.
Wellington-Harrington
Neighborhood
Wellington-Harrington, also known as Area 3, is a neighborhood in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Overlapping with Inman Square and Kendall Square, it is bounded by Hampshire Street and Broadway on the southwest, the Grand Junction railroad tracks on the east, and the Somerville town line on the north.
East Cambridge
Neighborhood
Photo: Tim Pierce, CC BY-SA 3.0.
East Cambridge is a neighborhood of Cambridge, Massachusetts. East Cambridge is bounded by the Charles River and the Charlestown neighborhood of Boston on the east, the Somerville border on the north, Broadway and Main Street on the south, and the railroad tracks on the west.
List Visual Arts Center
- Categories: museum, tourist attraction, and tourism
- Location: City of Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts, New England, United States, North America
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Latitude
42.36102° or 42° 21′ 40″ northLongitude
-71.08774° or 71° 5′ 16″ westElevation
10 feet (3 metres)Open location code
87JC9W66+CWOpenStreetMap ID
node 367777760OpenStreetMap feature
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In Other Languages
From Catalan to Japanese—“List Visual Arts Center” goes by many names.
- Catalan: “List Visual Arts Center”
- Japanese: “リスト・ヴィジュアル・アートセンター”
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