Innovation Trail 2024 Kick-Off Weekend Presented by Akamai

Join us for our kick-off weekend as we celebrate our museum and science center partners! On the weekend of May 17th-19th, we're encouraging everyone interested in STEM and innovation to visit the amazing STEM museums and centers on the Trail. The Innovation Trail is partnering with the Museum of Science, Draper Labs, the Broad Discovery Center, the Verizon Museum of Innovation in Communications, the MIT Museum, and the Russell Museum of Medical History and Innovation to bring you a weekend of innovation fun and education. How do you get your own free limited edition Innovation Trail embroidered hat? Visit just two of these sites, snap some photos, and share them on social media. (We always love it when you tag @BostonInnoTrail!) Then show your post at the information desk at any of our participating sites (listed on the right.) Supplies are limited. Grand prize: People who visit more than two of the museums, or create an exceptionally fun or creative post on social will be eligible to win our grand prize: a VIP ice cream tasting for you and a guest with Toscanini’s co-founder Gus Rancatore, where you'll learn how they develop new flavors — and taste some of the latest. Tag @BostonInnoTrail and email a link to <a href="mailto:anna@theinnovationtrail.org">anna@theinnovationtrail.org</a> to submit. Join us for our <a href="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/879704950187?aff=oddtdtcreator">season kick-off tour</a> on Saturday, May 18th at 10 AM, and you’ll automatically visit two of these museums. The tour starts at the Verizon Museum (not regularly open to the public.) We'll conclude at the MGH Museum of Medical History and Innovation. <a href="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/879704950187?aff=oddtdtcreator">Register here</a> and invite your family and friends!

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Innovation Trail 2024 Kick-Off Tour

What's better than helping us kick-off our 2024 tour season? Helping us kick-off our tour season&nbsp;AND&nbsp;getting some custom Innovation Trail swag! Our opening weekend of Innovation Trail tours celebrates the incredible STEM museums of Boston and Cambridge. No other city has so many STEM-focused museums within walking distance of each other.. On this tour, we'll get you inside a very special museum that isn't ordinarily open to the public: Verizon's museum of the telephone, which contains an incredible collection of early telephone equipment, as well as a recreation of Alexander Graham Bell's lab that was overseen by his assistant, Thomas Watson. Then, we'll walk together and discuss several other key places on The Innovation Trail, before wrapping up at Mass. General Hospital's Museum of Medical History and Innovation. For those who'd like some bonus exploration, we'll help you find the Ether Dome — the operating theater in the oldest part of Mass. General, where the first surgery using anesthesia was performed. When you join us for this kick-off tour, it'll be easy to enter (and win!) a limited edition embroidered Innovation Trail hat: all you need to do is post photos on social media from both of the museums we visit, and tag The Innovation Trail. Note:&nbsp;<a href="https://trytn.com/en/cambridgehistoricaltours/Details/3f199dc1-b1da-4807-88c6-af45ab5736e5?typeOfProduct=activity" target="_blank">Walking tours</a>&nbsp;of the Cambridge side of The Innovation Trail happen every Saturday through May 18th, then shift to every Friday, Saturday, and Sunday for the rest of the summer and fall. This Boston tour is not held regularly — so we hope you can join us!

Verizon Museum of Innovation in Communications

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