Museum History
The world's oldest recorded rodent, who lived to age 33 and resided at the Museum.
Who is Cooper the Porcupine?
The building equipment that was recently the subject of a passionate email saga.
What is the 660-ton chiller?
During Covid, the Museum's outdoor T-Rex fashioned these two accessories.
What is a band-aid and what is a face mask?
The full version of the previous, lingering, IT-department acronym.
What is Interactive and Information Technology?
The age of Tim Ritchie's favorite exhibit.
What is 3 billion years old?
The original names of the Green and Blue Wings in the Museum's exhibit halls.
What are the East and West Wings?
The amount the Museum pays annually to Massachusetts as "rent".
What is one dollar?
The permanent to-scale exhibit that begins in the Museum and physically spans to Newton, MA.
What is the Solar System model?
A Service Desk ticket that's finally closed due to the ticket opener no longer working at the Museum.
What is a "John Barbieri"? <3
The reality show that filmed it's 2021 season premiere at the Museum and rejected Abby as a contestant.
What is Married at First Sight?
The Museum's first advertising campaign in 1976 used the slogan "It's ___ to find out!"
What is fun?
The distance Leonard Nimoy lived from the Museum, according to the Mugar Omni Theater introduction.
How far is three blocks away?
The US location where Cliff, the 65-million-year-old Triceratops fossil, was discovered.
What is North Dakota?
IT's newest acronym: FAC.
Who is Finneas Alexander Cormier?
In the 60s, the Museum promoted its expansion with a Volkswagen panel van hauling this partial exhibit through the city, saying it needed $8 million to “make room for the rest of me.”
What is the T Rex? (Specifically, the head)
The Museum's overnight program stemmed from on-site sleepovers beginning with this youth leadership organization.
What is the Girl Scouts of America?
This animal alliteration was the subject of an unpopular 2025 phishing simulation.
What is a cat cafe?
The modern store that now occupies the Museum's original Back Bay location.
What is Restoration Hardware?
The year the Museum launched it's first website.
The middle name of Tom Wise.
The year smoking was prohibited in the Museum due to fire risk.
What is 1871?
The official name of the Museum's 1987 audio kinetic sculpture, located in the Red Wing atrium.
What is Archimedean Excogitation?
The name of the drawbridge outside the Museum, that only opens when you are late to work.
What is the Craigie Drawbridge?
Abby's beloved item that Mary destroyed and filmed on Snapchat, leading to a Warrant being posted on her office door.
What is an egg?
(Like a fresh, raw, egg that had a little face drawn on and was around for way too long, so Mary was justified)
The author of the Talking Points: Communication Skills To Advance Your IT Career (The I.T. Success Series Book 1).
Who is Tom Catalini?