Cambridge Park of Microscopic Life: A Pop-Up Park

Cambridge Park of Microscopic Life: A Pop-Up Park A pop-up "park" in Cambridge, Mass. that brings microscopes, magnifiers, and a new lens on urban nature to families, neighbors, and citizens of our city. Ave.

Want to collaborate to bring this park to your Cambridge neighborhood? Send us a message. This temporary park—the size of a parking spot—first popped up in Huron Village, a neighborhood of Cambridge, Mass., on International Park[ing] Day, Sept. 20, 2013, focusing on Fresh Pond, particularly algae. Another iteration of the park happened Saturday, May 10th, in Greene-Rose Heritage Park in Cambridge'

s neighborhood called The Port. It provided microscopes for viewing water, soil, and plant material samples from all over Cambridge, and volunteer guides to the tiny world of urban nature here. On Park(ing) Day 2016, the park popped up again, this time in front of the Porter Exchange on Mass.

Farewell! Thank you for your interest over the years. This page will be shutting down effective Dec. 31, 2026. We'd like...
12/28/2025

Farewell! Thank you for your interest over the years. This page will be shutting down effective Dec. 31, 2026. We'd like to point you to just a few of the wonderful resources, artists and scientists who advance access to microscopy.
Jess Holz, Scientist and Artist: https://jessholz.com
Argonne Lab," Microscopy 101": https://www.anl.gov/science-101/microscopy
Black Microbiologists Association https://www.instagram.com/blackinmicro/
Association for Women in Science (AWIS)

Microscopy employs more than just the simple microscopes you might use in school to look at bugs or leaves. It has grown into a highly advanced area of science. While basic microscopy started with light and lenses to make tiny things look bigger, modern microscopes use light, electrons or X-rays to....

Ooooh, check out this podcast.
02/29/2024

Ooooh, check out this podcast.

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Department of Human Service Programs, Cambridge MA Cambridge Public School District (Official Site) Cambridge Public Library@followersAgenda for Children OST

look at this!
04/28/2023

look at this!

Capture the microscopic aquatic world through art and imagination in 's "Micro Odyssey" activity! Students will examine, draw, paint, and identify microorganisms in pond water.

In our tradition of open air informal investigations of the microscopic world, MIT Open Space is hosting this event 4/22...
04/07/2023

In our tradition of open air informal investigations of the microscopic world, MIT Open Space is hosting this event 4/22 for kids 4–7 with an adults. Hats off to them and to the LEAP Lab.

Registration recommended! You’ll be the first to learn of event details or if the location or date changes due to inclement weather.

11/25/2022
If our park pops up again, we’d love to show how important soil biodiversity is, with hands-on activities!
08/10/2022

If our park pops up again, we’d love to show how important soil biodiversity is, with hands-on activities!

We’ll just put this here since we were (when we were a pop-up park) roughly in the business of “place-making.” Is all “p...
06/13/2022

We’ll just put this here since we were (when we were a pop-up park) roughly in the business of “place-making.” Is all “place-making” good? “Funky” Stuff isn’t the same as making places where people have community and feel that they are in, and of, and served by, and have agency in, their own neighborhoods.

LANSING, MI—In an effort to maximize the return on a newly constructed property they were trying to sell, local real estate developers Wellstone & Associates on Tuesday reportedly decided that a nearby colorful bench was enough to deem the area an “arts district.” “The bench is red, yellow, ...

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