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Add EventA Week-Long Build In The Museum Main Gallery! Zachs Contraptions Starting on Monday, March 30th, and continuing through Friday April 3rd Rube Goldberg Machine Build in the Museum Main Gallery FREE with Museum Admission Using parts and pieces found here at the Museum, as well as in his own collection, master contraption builder Zach Umperovich […]
Rachel Sumner & Traveling Light are a Boston-based string band making music that blends folk tradition with feminist storytelling, poetic detail, and just enough grit. At the center is Sumner’s songwriting—rooted in history, myth, and personal reckoning—carried by close harmonies, upright bass, acoustic guitar, and fiddle. The trio features Kat Wallace on fiddle and vocals […]
How refurbished technology can close the digital divide. In this conversation, Dylan Zajac will explore where old electronics really end up, the environmental and social costs of e-waste, and how Computers 4 People is building a scalable model to turn discarded technology into opportunity. The discussion will cover digital equity, sustainability, and what it takes […]
The 10th Anniversary Breezers Ball—a special "Thank You" to Waltham—will be a wonderful party to celebrate and thank Waltham for being such a great place to live and to work. This year's theme is "Bloom Where You Are Planted."
Two-fifths of the multi-award-winning band Ward Hayden and the Outliers prove that it's not the numbers that count, but the music. Ward Hayden has fronted his band The Outliers for nearly a decade (and longer before that as Girls, Guns, and Glory). Greg Hall has been a part of that outfit for over half of […]
The clockmaking tradition carried out by Chelsea Clock Company traces it’s roots back to the founding of the Harvard Clock Company in 1880 by Joseph Eastman. This talk will trace the evolution of the Boston style marine clock from it’s humble beginnings as a gauge clock through to the modern day manufacturing of these storied […]
Coal was the main fuel for industry, utilities and domestic life in metropolitan Boston between roughly 1820 and 1970, including the core years of the Industrial Revolutions. During this period, coal accounted for the majority of Boston’s energy supply and provided energy to Boston’s homes, factories, foundries, power plants, shipyards and other operations. Coal also […]
Formed in the fog of the timeline around the fall of the Twin Towers, the death of Elliott Smith, the peak influence of Pitchfork and the dawn of the iPod, the members of Winterpills met and began making music in the old-fashioned winter of 2003 in the shambolic Northampton, Massachusetts, music scene. They gleefully stumbled […]
Bring your well-loved items and our volunteers will try to repair them. Once again, we will be at the Charles River Museum. With their support, we can ensure that this event remains free and open to the public. Please explore this wonderful museum and event space while you are here! Donations and tips will be […]
Ever wonder how they get images and text on keychains, jewelry, and other objects? This workshop introduces participants to using the laser cutters and laser engravers at the Charles River Collaboratory. Under the guidance of experienced youth leaders, attendees learn safety protocols, laser settings (power and speed), and basic design techniques to create engraving projects. […]
The Saugus Iron Works National Historic Site, located in Saugus, Massachusetts, is a mid-twentieth century reconstruction of a seventeenth-century ironworks. Built by private investors in the public interest, the site is at turns an outdoor museum teaching the public about the origins of the iron and steel industries and an object lesson in the ingenuity […]
Ever wonder what all the hype is about with AI? This workshop will be led by Charles River Collaboratory instructors, with youth leaders as co-instructors. This workshop will focus on the basics of AI, and you will learn to train a “machine learning” model for object recognition to understand how AI models are trained by […]
