From the West:
From the West:
From the Massachusetts Turnpike: Exit at "Allston/Cambridge" (approximately 3 miles east of I-93). Follow signs to Cambridge. The Guest Quarters Hotel will be on your right. Go straight over the bridge into Cambridge and take your first right onto Memorial Drive. The Charles River will be on your right. Go straight on Memorial Drive, staying to the center of the road and going over the overpass at the Boston University (B.U.) Bridge (past Stop & Shop). Pass under the next bridge, which is the Massachusetts Avenue Bridge. The first street after that bridge, to the left, is Ames Street -- but it is one way in the wrong direction. You will have to take the second left (sign says Kendall Square) onto Wadsworth St. Take the first left onto Amherst Street. On Amherst Street, take the third right onto Ames Street. The Media Laboratory is the second building on your right. It is a large contemporary white tiled building.
From Logan Airport:
Take the Callahan Tunnel -- stay to the left and go up the ramp onto the Expressway (Rt. 3 North). Take the 2nd exit, "Storrow Drive" and stay in the left lane. Take the first ramp on the left "All Trucks, Government Center," then the first right over the Longfellow Bridge into Cambridge. In Cambridge, this road will become Broadway. At the second light (the Marriott Hotel will be on your left), turn left onto Ames Street. The Media Laboratory will be on your left about a block and a half down.
By Subway:
Please check the subway map at you boarding point. You want to take the Red Line to the "Kendall/MIT" stop. You can transfer without additional fees from any other subway line at the appropriate subway station.(Red/Green is at Park Station, Red/Orange is at Downtown Crossing, etc.). At the Kendall/MIT stop, you will surface at Main Street in Kendall Square. Landmarks include Au bon Pain, the Marriott Hotel, the MIT Coop and MIT Press Bookstore (across Main Street from the others), and Legal Seafoods Restaurant (at the west end of the block). Facing Main Street, with the Marriott and the MIT Coop to your back, proceed right (west) towards Legal Seafoods. Walk to the first traffic light. This is the intersection of Main Street and Ames Street. Turn left onto Ames Street. The Media Laboratory is the second building on the left at 20 Ames Street.
Parking:
There are rarely any on-street parking spaces on the MIT campus. The only garage that is convenient to the Media Laboratory is the Marriott Hotel garage. The entrance to this is on Ames Street, between Main and Broadway.
Media Laboratory
MIT Building #E15, The Wiesner Building
20 Ames Street
Cambridge, MA 02139
617-253-0338
