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Kendall/MIT Station
Kendall/MIT Station, Fall 2004
Station statistics
Address	Intersection of Main, Third Streets and Broadway, Cambridge, MA
Lines	MBTA Subway Red Line
Platforms	side platforms
Bicycle facilities	58 spaces
Other information
Opened	March 23, 1912
Accessible
Owned by	Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority

Kendall/MIT is a station on the rapid transit Red Line in Kendall Square at the intersection of Broadway and Main Street, in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Trains emerge from the Red Line tunnel just south/east of the station to cross the Charles River via the Longfellow Bridge. The station includes the Kendall Band, a public art installation of hand-operated musical sculptures that hang between the tracks at the station platform level and are operated by levers located on the side walls of the two platforms. The Kendall stop also features a prominent timeline detailing the history of the nearby Massachusetts Institute of Technology. There is no crossover within fare control; to reverse direction one must exit and re-enter the station, passing through fare gates again.

• Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• Cambridge Center commercial buildings
• Kendall Square Cinema
• CambridgeSide Galleria Mall
• Shops, restaurants, and hotels

• CT2 Sullivan Station - Ruggles Station via Kendall/MIT (free transfer)
• 64 Oak Square via North Beacon St. & Central Sq., Cambridge (rush hours only)
• 68 Harvard/Holyoke Gate via Broadway
• 85 Spring Hill via Summer St. & Union Sq.
• Free "Wave" shuttle bus to the CambridgeSide Galleria
• EZ Ride Shuttle to North Station

Kendall/MIT is wheelchair accessible. See MBTA accessibility.

The Kendall Band is an interactive musical sculpture by Paul Matisse, grandson of French impressionist Henri Matisse. It was installed in 1987 at the station. Matisse and other artists were commissioned by the MBTA as part of a public art project called Arts on the Line.

The three Kendall "band members" are named Kepler, Pythagoras and Galileo, after the scientists Johannes Kepler, Pythagoras, and Galileo Galilei. Their aluminium, teak and steel forms hang between the inbound and outbound train platforms. Bystanders on either side have access to controls for sound making.

"Kepler" is a 125-pound metal ring whose ratcheted hammer strikes an F sharp.

"Pythagoras" is a series of long metal tubes tuned to a B minor, with slight vibrato. A lever can be used to slowly build momentum of giant swinging mallets. When struck, the tubes' sounds echo throughout the station.

"Galileo" is a sheet of metal which, when shaken, sounds like thunder.

As of May 2007, the operating handles on the inbound platform are broken and have yet to be repaired.^[1]

As of July 2007, the operating handles magically reappeared and the Band is performing daily to the delight of thousands per day.

1. ^ This Matisse seeks a patron, The Boston Globe, June 18, 2007

• MBTA - Kendall Station (Red Line)
• nycsubway.org - MBTA Red Line: Kendall

Preceding station		MBTA		Following station
Central toward Alewife		Red Line		Charles/MGH toward Ashmont or Braintree