The Big Sail
The Big Sail is a work of art in City of Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts. The Big Sail is situated nearby to the grassland The Dot, as well as near Lewis Music Library.Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Green Building and List Visual Arts Center.
Green Building
University building
Photo: Daderot, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Cecil and Ida Green Building, also called the Green Building or Building 54, is an academic and research building at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
List Visual Arts Center
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. List Visual Arts Center is situated 580 feet northeast of The Big Sail.
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 1,100 feet northeast of The Big Sail.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Kendall Square and Back Bay.
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.
Back Bay
Suburb
Historical heavyweights, Back Bay and Beacon Hill are some of Boston's most beautiful neighborhoods. With narrow, gas-lit streets and scores of architecturally significant buildings, these distinctly different neighborhoods will make up the core of almost any visitor's itinerary.
Wellington-Harrington
Suburb
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.
The Big Sail
- Type: Work of art
- Artwork type: sculpture
- Category: tourism
- Location: City of Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts, New England, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
42.35972° or 42° 21′ 35″ northLongitude
-71.08895° or 71° 5′ 20″ westInception
1965Open location code
87JC9W56+VCOpenStreetMap ID
node 1914351810OpenStreetMap feature
tourism=artworkOpenStreetMap attribute
artwork_type=sculpture
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Satellite Map
Discover The Big Sail from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
In Other Languages
“The Big Sail” goes by many names.
- French: “La Grande Voile”
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include The Dot and Lewis Music Library.
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