The &quot;HMSC Connects! Podcast&quot; is back with <a href="https://www.peabody.harvard.edu/listening-to-wampanoag-voices-beyond-1620">Wampanoag Perspectives.</a> In this series of interviews, The Peabody Museum asks Wampanoag tribal members to reflect on collections that span the seventeenth to twentieth centuries and are stewarded by the Museum. View the collection and listen in as tribal members share memories, thoughts and reflections about items made by their ancestors and relatives. You will learn how Wampanoag life and culture continues to flourish today.

Listening to Wampanoag Voices: Beyond 1620 (Online Exhibit)

<a href="https://lesley.edu/events/can-you-make-hair-for-me-a-virtual-exhibit">&quot;Can You Make Hair for Me?&quot;</a> is a photographic art project by artist and Lesley graduate student, Eileen Powers. Its goal is to bring joy and levity to those undergoing chemotherapy. In this collaborative virtual exhibit, hair and headpieces created by Expressive Arts Therapy Lesley graduate students are exhibited alongside Powers&#39;s photographs. Artwork is on view virtually through February 1, 2021. A virtual Opening Reception and Artist&#39;s Talk takes place on October 9 at 7p.m.

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“Can You Make Hair for Me?”

Lighter, Stronger, Faster at the MIT Museum in Cambridge celebrates the spirit of innovation by examining the unparalleled impact on marine design and engineering by Nathanael Greene Herreshoff and the Herreshoff Manufacturing Company. One of the MIT’s earliest students, N. G. Herreshoff (MIT Class of 1870) set new standards in design and manufacturing, realizing remarkable influence and success over a 75-year career. His legendary design genius, engineering innovations and manufacturing efficiency led to the production of six America’s Cup winners and hundreds of other highly regarded vessels, the introduction of modern catamarans, the first torpedo boats for the U.S. Navy, and the first steam-powered fishing vessels in the U.S.To see more information about the exhibition, please visit the <a href="https://mitmuseum.mit.edu/herreshoff">MIT Museum&#39;s website</a>.

Lighter Stronger Faster: The Herreshoff Legacy sketch

LIGHTER, STRONGER, FASTER: THE HERRESHOFF LEGACY

The MIT Museum invites you to explore invention, ideas, and innovation. Through interactive exhibitions, public programs, experimental projects and its renown collections, the MIT Museum showcases the fascinating world of MIT, and inspires people of all ages about the possibilities and opportunities offered by science and technology.

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photo by Samara Vise

See the renovated Glass Flowers!Professor George Lincoln Goodale, founder of the Botanical Museum, wanted life-like representatives of the plant kingdom for teaching botany. At the time only crude papier-maché or wax models were available.  The parts were shaped after the glass was softened by heat. Some models were blown. Colored glass was used for many, others were &quot;cold painted&quot; with a thin wash of colored ground glass or metal oxide(s) and heated until the material fused to the model.The life-size models include 847 species, with remarkably accurate anatomical sections and enlarged flower parts. Since the Glass Flowers are always in bloom, tropical and temperate species may be studied year-round.The Glass Flowers gallery is open during regular museum hours and is included in the general admission fee. <a href="http://www.hmnh.harvard.edu/">Click here</a> for hours, fees, and directions.

Glass Flowers

The Glass Flowers

Explore 12,000 specimens, including dinosaurs, rare minerals, hundreds of mammals, birds, and Harvard’s world famous Blaschka ‘Glass Flowers’ -- 3,000 amazingly realistic models of plants, fruits and flowers hand-crafted by father-son glass artists Leopold and Rudolph Blaschka from 1886-1936. The HMNH combines historic exhibits drawn from the University&#39;s vast collections with new and changing, multimedia exhibitions such as New England Forests, Mollusks: Shelled Masters of the Marine Realm; and the newest, Thoreau&#39;s Maine Woods: A Journey in Photographs with Scot Miller. On campus, 7-8 minute walk from T.<h2>Celebrations &amp; Meetings</h2>Your guests can explore 17 galleries at the university’s most visited museum, including the world famous Blaschka ‘Glass Flowers’, &quot;New England Forests&quot;, meteorites, glittering gemstones They will not want to miss the newly renovated Great Mammal Hall with three whale skeletons suspended from the ceiling. Evening event rentals only. Available for receptions, dinners, from 20-400. No dancing permitted. Parking garage available for rental for museum events after 5 pm. Museum can not accommodate daytime meetings. See website for preferred caterers.Maximum Capacity: 400<a href="http://www.hmnh.harvard.edu/host_an_event/index.php">More Information</a>

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Listening to Wampanoag Voices: Beyond 1620 (Online Exhibit)

“Can You Make Hair for Me?”

LIGHTER, STRONGER, FASTER: THE HERRESHOFF LEGACY

The Glass Flowers